<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Jeevacation &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Monday, August 17, 2009 5:30 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Ben Goertzel</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: Singularity Summit and followup workshop</td></tr></table>

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On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Ben Goertzel > wrote:

> Jeffrey,

> BTW I think I mentioned this to you before, but you may be interested
> in the Singularity Summit which is a conference in NY Oct 3-4
> http://www.singularitysummit.com/
>
> Also, there will be a small-scale workshop on Oct 5 and the morning of
> Oct 6, which will be restricted to the **speakers** at the Summit,
> plus perhaps a handful of others. If you have interest in attending
> all or part of this workshop, let me know; you'd be welcome. This
> might be more your speed than the main conference as it will be
> "brilliant people only" and more discussion-oriented....
>
> I'll be giving a talk on my AI and bioinformatics projects at the
> Summit, and there's at least some chance this will arouse some
> investor/donor interest ... who knows. Also, Dan Stoicescu, the guy I
> mentioned who funded Novamente for a while this year, *may* be at the
> Summit and follow-up discussions (though I can't be sure as he's been
> very elusive lately)....
>
> Also, apart from the Summit, if you want to get together F2F that
> interval would be convenient for me as I'll be in NY anyway...
>
> -- Ben
>
> P.S.
> I thought a moment more about your question of "why AGI can't get
> traction."
>
> I think that once one AGI project achieves a sufficiently interesting
> result, then we'll all-of-a-sudden see AGI getting a *hell of a lot*
> of traction. But I think my project is maybe $250K-$600K and 2-3
> years away from getting that kind of kick-ass result. This is what
> the project plan I sent you N months ago was about.
>
> What is needed is for one AGI project (like mine ;-) to get funded

> consistently for a few years, so that a system doing basic integrated

> language/learning reasoning can be demonstrated. Then the world will

> pay attention and the funding will pour in from all sorts of sources.

>

> And like I said, without my project being funded overall, what I can > do is to do mathematical work to refine my design and theory, so that > when the funding does come, the work will be smoother and smaller..

>

>

> Ben Goertzel, PhD

> CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC

> <u>Director of</u> Research, SIAI

>

"Truth is a pathless land" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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