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From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 5:08 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Google buys Deep Mind ... Wow, did you see this? http://recode.net/2014/01/26/exclusive-google-to-buy-artificial-intelligence-startup-deepmind-for-400m/ That is the company I often pointed out as being the most likely competitor to OpenCog in really pushing toward AGI... And I happen to know (from my friendship with their co-founder Shane Legg, who will now become a very wealthy Google employee) that Deep Mind has *nothing* technologically besides some interesting proto-AGI R&D code.... Nothing that works, really. So it's pretty much an acqui-hire .... And 50 programmers for $400M is a really fat acquihire; $1M - $2M per programmer is way more typical... this shows that Google values anything Al or robotics ish quite a lot these days... One read of the overall situation would be "Google is going to win the race to AGI" -- they have a lot of $5 and are looking to hire the entire Al and robotics field... Maybe they will change their name to CyberDyne systems (cf "Terminator" ...) OTOH, more money doesn't •always• win; having the right set of ideas also means a lot.... Linux, not Windows, dominates supercomputing and the Internet.... And they are not doing proto-AGI within Google X, they're doing it in their main product dev division, which brings a complicated set of compromises... Hmmm... Interesting times !!! more later... ben Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <IDOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> creal>0.04real> <key>date-received</key> EFTA_R1_01396502 EFTA02381497 <teal>1390799297</real> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>5</integer> <integer>18</integer> </array> <key>original-mailbox</key> <string>ima p://jeevacation @i map.gmail.com/%5BGmail%5D/AII%20Mail</stri ng> <key>remote-id</key> <string>383604</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01396503 EFTA02381498