From: John Brockman To: Jeffrey Epstein Cc: ==l > Subject: Demis Hassibis - EDGE event in London in April Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:27:20 +0000 Attachments: NATURE.pdf; Digital_intuition Nature_News_&_Comment.pdf JE, Last month, I hosted a dinner in New York for Demis Hassibis, the acknowledged leading thinker among the new wave of AI researchers exploring what has become known as "deep learning". TI actually demanded that Danny Hillis show up because Hassibis, 35 years later, is the next really brilliant young man. Danny did take the train from Boston. He was not disappointed. The evening sparkled, a stunningly interesting experience. (See below for information about Demis). I will be in London for a week beginning April 7th. Demis, who works in London, has agreed to do a reprise as an EDGE event while I am in town. The best dates for that evening are Thurs- Sunday nights, Feb 7-10th. Can you join us? This time, rather than having just scientists present, I want to focus on people who think about intelligence and learning through different kinds of prisms, i.e. Brian Eno, Ian McEwan, Terry Gilliam, Alfonso Cuaron, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Stoppard, among others. I see this more as a dinner conversation, rather than a talk by Demis, hopefully videotaped, unless his new corporate masters at Google shut that down. There's a precedent here for the dinner motif. It was in 1968 in a six-part avant garde series at the 92nd St Y Poetry Center in NY that John Cage hosted a dinner onstage for about 8 people in front of an full house. If it is a dinner, and it's videotaped, it would be best to limit it to a maximum of 12 people sitting around a single table. I can see a variety of venues, all of which have attractions and also issues. Some ideas: A private dining room at a quiet restaurant or club; the home of a philanthropic arts patron an artist's studio such as Eno's; even the Serpentine Gallery. We're probably better off in a full-service restaura