From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel < Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 9:17 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Google / Kurzweil Hi Jeffrey, The visit to Google was very interesting.... I'll summarize some of the highlights below: first regarding OpenCog/Google collaboration, and then regarding the situation of Al research and Ray Kurzweil at Google in general... OPENCOG & GOOGLE In terms of OpenCog and my own work, it seems clear that, if I can put together the right sort of demo for them, it will be plausible to start a serious collaboration with Google (via showing this demo to Ray who can then show it to Larry Page). It is clear to Ray and me what kind of demo this would be. Basically what we need is a nice demo of OpenCog -- translating natural language into logical relationships (as in some simple examples I showed you at your house in a Scheme file, but working more robustly) -- performing inference to connect these relationships with Google Knowledge Graph The goal from Google's perspective would be to annotate web pages more thoroughly with information from Google Knowledge Graph, which is a big focus and bottleneck for them at the present. Ray's feeling is that if I can show him that, then we can figure out a practical way for Google, me and OpenCog to collaborate on building something having great economic value to Google, as well as having some incremental value in building toward AGI. And this will be a step toward, potentially, getting a lot more of Google's resources oriented toward AGI and OpenCog.... If things go really well, we could have a demo like this by late summer or early fall.... Late fall would be easier. The core ideas and code are in place to enable this, but there's still a lot of work to be done. But getting this done, realistically, would probably require having someone in addition to Ruiting (currently our only NLP person) devoted to the task, which I don't currently have funding for. GOOGLE, Al & RAY A few po