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hi, I have begun funding some AI to the minus one. . answers are not as interesting as great questions. i want a machine that can ask quesitons.? In my scouting I saw you supported rupert sheldrakes right to speak. have you met him. Id like to fund something . if controls adequate

Hi Jeffrey,

Good to hear from you!

BTW -- We have not yet been able to install our software on your Virgin Islands server as requested, because the sys-admin there, Jermaine, has not yet opened a port in the router there to let us access the machine remotely. I wonder if he doesn't know how to do that? (but it's a very basic thing....).... Anyhow we have emailed and asked him to do this several times...

I like the idea of a machine that can ask questions...! Actually the logic of questions is dual to the logic of answers, see

http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/aistats/fullpapers/246.pdf

Making OpenCog ask questions to fill in gaps in its knowledge is one of our current priorities, in fact....

I'm glad to hear you have decided to fund Joscha for another year. He is really enjoying his time in Boston and getting a lot out of the various contacts he's making there. I wonder if you'd like to reconsider funding the proposal Joscha and I sent you some months ago, for work on intelligent/simply-conscious virtual animals? Or did that happen not to float your boat? We have discussed many other possibilities for collaboration, e.g. application of OpenCog +MicroPsi to mathematical theorem-proving (via grounding mathematics in embodied experience, along the lines that Lakoff and Nunez discussed in "Where Mathematics Comes From")

Gino Yu told me he met you recently. He's a fun guy who helped me get started here in Hong Kong. His wife's family is very wealthy and influential here (though his wife, while head of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, got busted for insider trading and spent 1.5 years in jail here... really a bummer for Gino's kids... but anyway she's been out a while now and is back in business...)

BTW to ease your potential re-reading, here is a re-send of the proposal Joscha and I made for you last year ;)

--ben

yes IU would like to be put in touch, yes i will re read . gino is still an unlkown