Thanks. This is coming back to me now... I remember, it is led by physics-first Geordie Rose (copy/paste from "about"). He's got some videos worth investing time in on youtube.
~~~~~~~~~ Geordie Rose Co-Founder & CEO Geordie founded D-Wave, the world’s first quantum computing company, and was the CEO of Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment. He has sold quantum computers and robots that learn to Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, The Gap, and several US government agencies. He received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia in 2000. He is an inventor on 54 granted US patents and a co-author on a large number of published scientific articles, including two Nature papers, more than a dozen PRLs and PRBs, two NIPS and one ACML paper. He was named the 2011 Canadian Innovator of the Year, was named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013, won the 2014 Canadian Technology Leader award, has won two Canadian national wrestling championships and is a member of the McMaster University Hall of Fame, won the 2010 NAGA world championships in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in both gi and no-gi categories, won the BC provincial A beach volleyball championship with Jason Hall in 2003, for a short time held the Guinness Book of World Records world record for the most yogurt eaten in one minute, was a past holder of British Columbia powerlifting records in deadlift, bench press and total for the 105kg masters division, and has completed eight half marathons and two full marathons. On 3/28/22, Brett N Martensen <br...@adaptroninc.com> wrote: > A little research shows that: Sanctuary AI is an artificial general > intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, > B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are > indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The > company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the > ethical issues that arise from creating human-like machines. > To me they look like they are management heavy and research light. They are > robot hardware heavy and AGI software light. The video on one of their web > pages is commented with "Video at top of page shows a Sanctuary > general-purpose robot > system under pilot control. " But there is no way to tell how old the video > is. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc64bef6cf5634491-M592eb697d64ba16385e45978 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
