EFTA Document EFTA01756518

From: Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 3:17 AM To: Ben Goertzel Cc: jeffrey epstein Subject: Re: Hanson Robotics This is terrific! Thank you! On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Ben Goertzel <-> wrote: > Hi Christina, > Attached find a version of the research proposal that was used to > achieve our funding for robotics work from the HK government (which is > a 90-10 matching grant, and Jeffrey has been helping with the 10% > corporate sponsorship portion, indirectly by donating $$ to the > nonprofit org Humanity+ which then grants it to my impoverished > consulting firm Novamente LLC, which is the formal corporate sponsor > of the project ;p kinda convoluted I know!! ) . > This will tell you about the aims of our current work. At the moment > our robotics work is still getting off the ground, though. We have > also begun working with Mark Tilden, who builds awesome robot > bodies... This video tells the story of our growing collaboration in > a less formal way: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VblofRjtXjQ > By the way, a 48-minute documentary film discussing some earlier, > similar robotics work I did in 2009 is here: > http://singularityorbust.com > Also, attached find some photos of our robots.... (The Femi-Einstein > ones are just for fun and obviously not suitable for an article... I > just crudely duct-taped one of David Hanson's Einstein heads on one of > Mark Tilden's FemiSapien bodies. Because -- well -- why not ? ) > A research paper discussing the computer vision aspects of our > robotics work is here: > http://goertzel.org/agi-13/DeSTIN_PLN_v3.pdf > and a crude video of that talk is here: EFTA_R1_00058050 EFTA01756518 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcwHFniCtc > thx ;) > Ben > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:01 AM, > wrote: » Hi Ben, » I hope that you are well. » I'm drafting an article on the intelligence that you are creating/ » have created for Hason Robotics specifically. » Is it comparable to the intelligence that you developed for the » virtual platforms? » Thank you for sending any documentation about this. » I.regards, » cell: » email: > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > <CogBot_Proposal_v7.doc> <article_photos.zip> <baby_einsteinl4.jpg> > <baby_einstein02.jpg> <baby_einstein07.jpg> <baby_einstein20.jpg> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE 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> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1383794377</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>22</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> 2 EFTA_R1_00058051 EFTA01756519 <key>remote-ick/key> <string>359507</string> </dict> </plist> 3 EFTA_R1_00058052 EFTA01756520