From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel <an To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: someone else's chat with Larry Page Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:22:26 +0000 Will do... On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation8gmail.com> wrote: > please have itimar send me a working example of his vision system.. he said > it can distinguish between cats and dogs in various scales and positions, I > would like to see a demonstration > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Ben Goertzel < wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm working on a "mini version" of the proposal to send to some "big >> name" acquaintances to recruit their endorsements for Itamar's and my » project... >> >> BTW though, I mentioned your comments about Larry Page to my friend >> Rod Furlan (who knows Larry) and here was his reply >> >> We can see from his comments to Rod what Larry's view on AGI is: he >> doesn't think a complex AGI architecture like mine or Itamar's is >> needed ... he sorta thinks it's going to emerge from what Google is >> already doing via processing masses of data. If he believe that then, >> yeah, he'll believe there's lots of AI work going on at Google... >> » ben >> >> >> Forwarded message >> From: Rod Furlan >> Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:13 AM >> Subject: Re: Meeting w/ Epstein >> To: Ben Goertzel < > >> >> >> >> >> >> Larry Page told me something completely different just a few weeks >> ago. He said that he finds it hard to get Googlers to seriously work >> on AGI and that in fact, that he would be willing to invest on >> external AI projects because in his view not enough people are working >> on it right now. He also said that he believes that AGI will "emerge >> from mountains of data, lots of computing power and a simple >> algorithm" and then he went on to be completely wrong on his reasoning » of how simple intelligence must be because doesn't take much >> information to express it in DNA. >> >> >> >> >> Rod Fu