Summary
Dileep George is an artificial intelligence and neuroscience researcher.
Dileep George | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation | Neuroscientist |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Redwood Neuroscience Institute Numenta Vicarious |
| Thesis | How the brain might work: A hierarchical and temporal model for learning and recognition (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Widrow |
Career edit
George received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2006 and was a visiting fellow at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.[citation needed]
In 2005, George pioneered hierarchical temporal memory and cofounded the AI research startup Numenta, Inc. with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky.[1] In 2010, George left Numenta to join D. Scott Phoenix in founding Vicarious, an AI research project funded by internet billionaires Peter Thiel and Dustin Moskovitz.[2][3]
The Alphabet-owned company Intrinsic acquired Vicarious in 2022. The AI and robotics divisions merged with Intrinsic, while the research division (including George) joined DeepMind.[4] As of 2022, George is a Research Scientist at DeepMind.
References edit
- ^ Markoff, John (24 March 2005). "A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^ "Vicarious Systems Says Its Artificial Intelligence Is The Real Deal". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Ha, Anthony. "Early Facebook Executives Back AI Startup Vicarious Systems". New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ^ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/22/alphabet-owned-intrinsic-is-acquiring-fellow-robotic-software-firm-vicarious/