{"efta_number": "EFTA00628447", "page_count": 2, "url": "https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00628447", "pdf_url": "https://epstein-data.com/pdf/EFTA00628447.pdf", "pages": [{"efta_number": "EFTA00628447", "page_number": 0, "text_content": "From: Ben Goertzel \nTo: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> \nSubject: What I'd really like to be doing (proposal for larger OpenCog AGI Toddler project) \nDate: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:29:48 +0000 \nAttachments: OpenCog_Toddler HK.pdf \nHi Jeffrey, \nHope you enjoyed Africa!! (or are still enjoying it, if you're still \nthere). That's one continent I've not yet explored, except for \nMorocco and Egypt, years ago... \nMostly just for your curiosity, attached is a proposal I put together \nrecently for someone else (a long shot to be sure, but I've got to \nkeep trying). This proposal is the latest version of my \"full speed \nahead toward AGI\" plan... it would involve 15 people based in our \ncurrent lab in Hong Kong, working on nothing but AGI for 4 years. \nThe result would be an AGI controlling a video game character and a \nHanson Robokind humanoid robot, with roughly the same intelligence as \na young human child. \nThe cost would be US$7501Uyear for 4 years. The project would be led \nby me and people who work with me on Al projects already, plus some \nnew young Chinese hires (lots of smart young Chinese AI guys in HK). \nI'm quite aware that if you show this proposal to Minsky or Schank \nthey'll say it's doomed to fail. But, well, they're wrong.... \nOf course, US$3M is a lot of money. However, this would be the \n\"Sputnik of AGI\" -- it would set the development of AGI on a whole new \ncourse.... \nI wonder, would you be willing to fund half of this on a \"matching\" \nbasis? That is, would you be willing to put in $1.5M if I can find \nanother $1.5M from one or two other wealthy individuals? Sometimes \nit's easier to secure $$ once there is already some $$ in the pot, as \nI'm sure you know. \nFor sure, I **extremely** much appreciate your funding of our current \nsmaller-scale OpenCog AGI project in Hong Kong, yet I can't help \nwishing we had funds to really push full speed ahead. $3M is so \nlittle compared to what the world spends on so much nonsense, yet so \nmuch in terms of the AGI R&D it would enable... \nJust a thought ;-) ... nobody will ever accuse me of lack of persistence!!! \nben \nEFTA00628447\n", "char_count": 2118}, {"efta_number": "EFTA00628447", "page_number": 1, "text_content": "Ben Goertzel, PhD \nCEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC \nCTO, Genescient Corp \nVice Chairman, Humanity+ \nAdjunct Professor of Cognitive Science, Xiamen University, China \nAdvisor Sin ularity University and Singularity Institute \n\"My humanity is a constant self-overcoming\" -- Friedrich Nietzsche \nEFTA00628448\n", "char_count": 308}]}