Re: Ethiopia article published

26 August 2015 at 09:38

Looks great! Congrats on the publication, and thanks for getting iCog the publicity — the guys in Addis will be thrilled ;-)  

ben

On Wed Aug 26 2015 at 5:17 AM > Hi Ben, > > > Techonomy placed a link to iCog Labs as well. > > I'll follow up with you shortly about setting up an Al conference with them > for next Fall. I'm in San Francisco and back home tomorrow. > > Am cc'ing Jeffrey. > > all the best, > Forwarded Message - ---- > From: > To: Ben Goertzel > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 11:21 AM > Subject: Al Ignites in Ethiopia article > > Dear Ben, > > I hope you are well. I finally placed the Al in with > ▼ former tech editor of > Fortune Magazine and the founder of the popular series. Techonomy > has become the TED Talks for technology subjects and its role in society. > They host televised conferences worldwide and are an incredibly dynamic > group. Please take a look at their website: www.techonomy.com. Let me know > if you have any interest in putting together a conference on your work and > where you think Al is headed today and I will send your proposal to them. > Techonomy has wide global coverage. > > The Guardian initially wanted this piece but then retracted because they > felt the Ethiopian government was too corrupt... (seemed myopic to me). The > BBC also wanted it but was only going to include a small snippet in a larger > Al segment that they're doing in September. > > So I thought Techonomy was a good fit especially since they are global and

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> have a televised conference division that can be tapped into.

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> The editor asked me if I could get an image for the article. Do you have one

> of you and Getnet Assefa or of the iCog team that they could use?

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> I will send you the link when published.

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> Thank you in advance,

> <u>Best wishes</u>

Ben Goertzel, PhD

http://goertzel.org

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bemard Shaw

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