<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>on behalf of Ben Goertzel</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:39 AM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Jeffrey Epstein</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Visiting in November</td></tr></table>

Hi Jeffrey,

I hope you've been well!

I'll be in the US in early November for the BICA=conference at MIT (Nov 7-9; I guess Joscha will attend as well)... and pro=ably stay in the US for a little bit after that...

I wonder if we c=uld meet up at some point during my US visit -- either in Boston if you t=;11 be there around that time, or in New York, or anywhere else that you p=efer...

It would be good to show you some of the stuff we'=ve been up to with OpenCog, if you can spare a couple hours. Lots go=ng on ;) ... (due to the efforts of the team in Hong Kong, plus some of th= guys in Ethiopia...) ... our NLP/reasoning work is advancing quite a bit,=as well as some video game world and robotics stuff...

As an =side, our Al hedge fund project looks like it's going to go forward an= we'll probably start trading early next year. We had been=struggling with HK equity data, but shifting to US equities and global fut=res (in the last couple months) has given us much nicer historical predict=on accuracies (largely due to the lower transaction costs on these markets=. Next step is to run backtests on these other markets, and then try=it all on data from 2012-2014, which we have held out as "virgin data=quot; for last-ditch testing... and then if that works, trade real money..=. I have been splitting my time between OpenCog and the =rading project and am sick to death of quantitative finance and eager to s=ift more time to OpenCog; but I would rather ramp down my time on the fina=ce project on a successful note (i.e. after getting a tradable system work=ng), and at the moment it seems to be going in that direction... =div>

Thanks,

Ben

Ben Goertzel,=PhD
http://goertzel.o=g <http://goertzel.org>

"In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insa=e". -- Capt. James T. Kirk

"Emancipate yourself from ment=l slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Ma=ley