From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel <Milla>1 I To: Jeffrey Epstein<[email protected]> Subject: Re: Continuing our conversation and: AGI Roadmapping Workshop Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:35:11 +0000 Also, I thought a bit more about specifically what I could accomplish this fall if I obtained research funding (from you or somebody else). I could wrap up a book that is under contract to World Scientific Press, called "Real World Reasoning" ... a sequel to my 2008 book "Probabilistic Logic Networks" (Springer), specifically addressing the math and CS of reasoning about time and space. This is an adapted version of a report I was paid to write for IARPA (a government agency) early this year, by the way. Then I could write a couple papers for the AI Journal on the connections between my AI design and Marcus Nutter's abstract theory of general intelligence. Tjhese already exist in rough draft form but still, polishing math-y stuff for publication takes time and effort. I think that would take me thru the end of October. Then in Nov and Dec I could **finally** finish up a draft of my book explaining my design for an AGI, and send it to some colleagues for preliminary feedback. Basically what I want to do is to re-cast the material in this book-length wikibook http://opencog.org/wiki/0penCogPrime:WikiBook in terms of the "mathematical theory of intelligence" stuff. Thus making a systematic scholarly argument for my approach to AGI. Which I have wanted to do for a long time, but the grounding of the concrete AGI stuff in Nutter's theory has filled in a missing link that makes me understand how to make this a Great Book now, instead of just an interesting one... While doing this writing, I can also continue to lead the OpenCog open-source AI effort, which has some participants independently of my ability to finance work (though of course it will be more active if Novamente, you, Dan or someone comes through with funding for the work) Anyway if you hav