Fwd: Next Meeting, and materials

Good morning David. I understand Jeffrey would like you to come see him this week. What airport do you fly out of? Also need the exact spelling of your name.

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Thanks for the info. I will be back to you.

Hi Jeffrey,

Here are some materials related to my vision for the pursuit of Genius Machines, including the attached white paper summary of the Genius Machines project (under the title of the GENI-Lab), my CV, and the following summary statement of my aspirations for the lab:

Testing human responses to such GENI robots can help scientifically investigate human perception, and improve human-agent interactions. Raising AGI among people as characters may develop machine empathy. Yet, this work could produce unintended consequences; therefore, we will investigate potential hazards of human-AGI interactions, both theoretically and experimentally.

• To this end, the GENI-Lab will push our GLUE.ai initiative, to bridge existing Al and related activities, to enable rapid development of new generations of intelligent systems, both within the GENI-Lab, and by groups around the world. The GENI-Lab will also seek fundamental understanding of the

• I am uniquely qualified to found and help lead the GENI-Lab, with expertise and accomplishments in robotics, art practice, A.I., technoculture, cognitive science, material science, and business. My works in expressive androids with intelligent conversations, and my cognitive science research on the Uncanny Valley, are widely cited. My android portraits of Philip K Dick, Einstein, and Bina Rothblatt achieved breakthroughs in mind uploading—using A.I. and large datasets to create functional portraits of existing personalities. The GENI-Lab will extend this work into bold new directions.

• My history demonstrates successful transdisciplinary collaborations with distinguished artists, scientists, and businesses, with examples including JPL-physicist Yoseph Bar-Cohen, artist David Byrne, neuroscience researchers Javier Movellan, Alice O'Toole and many others. I cofounded the 2006 European Indigo consortium of cognitive robotics, winning over $6M Euro in EU funding, resulting in ground-breaking robots and open-source software. I founded and directed numerous other teams, for robotics, material science, and Al. I bring these experiences and relations to the GENI-Lab, as well as strong Hong Kong collaborations, including with Ben Goertzel, businessman T.S. Ong and his company Jetta, and many other local scientists and engineers.

• In general Hong Kong provides an ideal milieu for the GENT-Lab, proven as a world-center in robotics and Al research, robotics manufacturing, philanthropy, and investment, so provides a perfect culture for growing Genius Machines. From here, we will coordinate with research around the globe, to solve problems with an international force of leaders in research.

•Co-founding the GENI-Lab with renowned A.I. researcher Ben Goertzel and roboticist Mark Tilden, provides the proper base for success, as each of us brings global connections for international collaborations, and world class expertise in domains related to the pursuit of Genius Machines.

• The GENI-Lab will work by series of spectacular sprints towards tangible results, striving for minimum of 4 such sprints per year. Each sprint will seek to demonstrate , while breakthrough science, and incrementally advancing . Using these methods with my brilliant colleagues, the GENI-Lab will unleash great surges in progress towards the most transformative technology in the history of research.

Kind regards,

David Hanson, Ph.D., Founder/ Chief Scientist, Hanson Robotics Inc.

Attachments: GENI_White-Paper_2013-01-03.docx.pdf; Untitled attachment 00164.htm; HansonCV_2013-01-09.pdf; Untitled attachment 00167.htm

Importance: High

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From: "David Hanson"
Subject: FW: Next Meeting, and materials

Date: January 23, 2013 3:44:35 PM EST

To: "'Lesley Groff"

Hi Lesley,

This email to Jeffrey bounced, so I hope you can get it to him with the attached materials, which are important for our discussion.

David