From: J <jeevacationggmail.com> To: Lesley Groff Subject: Fwd: Invitation: Launch Event @ Brattle Theatre & Gala Dinner (if; Benedetto for POSSIBLE MINDS Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:02:43 +0000 Forwarded message From: John Brockman cl Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:01 PM Subject: Invitation: Launch Event (ii; Brattle Theatre & Gala Dinner qi; Benedetto for POSSIBLE MINDS To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation(i4gmail.com> 'Artificial intelligence is today's story—the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time: good Al versus evil Al." —John Brockman Dear Jeffrey, Katinka Matson, Max Brockman, and I are pleased to invite you to join us in a gala evening to celebrate the publication of Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at Al (click link for cover/contributors/contents). DATE: Thursday, February 21, 2019 TIME: 6:00 - 7:30pm - The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge MA A program of lightning presentations, conversations, and contributors to the book include: George Church, George Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Caroline Jones, David Kaiser, Seth Lloyd, Sandy Pentland, Steven Pinker, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stephen Wolfram. 7:45 - 10:00pm - Dinner for 60 at Benedetto (Private Dining Room) in the Charles Hotel 1 Bennett Street Cambridge MA BACKSTORY There's a personal poignancy about this project. One day in 1965, while I was working as the manager of the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in NYC, the phone rang, and I was introduced to A.K. Solomon, Chairman of the Biophysics Department at Harvard and Walter Rosenblith, sensory communications researcher at MIT. Along with Harold "Doc" Edgerton at MIT and Anthony Oettinger of Harvard, they had been reading about "The Expanded Cinema Festival" I was producing at the Cinematheque, where the artists were reading Norbert Wiener and bringing his cybernetic ideas about the nonlinear relationship between input and output in the control of analog systems