RE: Convincing wealthy benefactors to back real AI research

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@webmind.com)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 07:46:06 MDT


I'll reply off-list...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:15 AM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Re: Convincing wealthy benefactors to back real AI research
>
>
> Ben Goertzel wrote:
> >
> > I think I can get $$ for this, in a modest amount sufficient to support,
> > say, 12 guys in Brazil and 3 in the US. This should be enough
> to get the
> > system finished within a couple years.
>
> How? I'm not asking you for the names of your funders, of course, but
> nonetheless: How? How do you get $500K/year, or whatever level of
> funding you're talking about here? Where would the Singularity Institute
> start to do the same?
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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