Loonshots and Moonshots, an Evening with the Author Safi Bahcall

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On April 9th 2019 XLabs hosted a private evening with Safi Bahcall. Physicist and biotech entrepreneur Safi Bahcall, author of Loonshots, discusses with XLabs CEO Dr. Radhika Dirks a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about radical breakthroughs. Bahcall shows why groups will suddenly change from embracing wild …

Breaking the Code: Scale Engineering & Software Cultural Shifts with Kent Beck- EP004

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“Don’t pretend like you have control over this situation, because you don’t.” – Kent Beck Welcome to the XLabs “Breaking the Code” series in which we interview key experts in moonshot technologies. Today we are happy to welcome Kent Beck, the creator of extreme programming and the first signator of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. …

CEO Dr. Radhika Dirks Keynotes at World Bank’s Leadership Conference in Singapore.

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XLabs was one of 5 companies, along with Google, Alibaba, Facebook and Grab, advising the World Bank on its technology policies for global development. CEO Dr. Radhika Dirks gave the event’s keynote address. In the words of one attendee “You have changed the way we think & we are already using your lingo in our internal discussions — amplified not …

XLabs - moonshot factory in artificial intelligence

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Welcome to the first episode in the XLabs “Breaking the Code” series in which we interview key experts in moonshot technologies. Today we are happy to welcome Professor Bharath Chandrasekaran, Associate Professor of Auditory Neuroscience at UT Austin and soon to be Vice Chair of Research at the University of Pittsburgh. We have known Bharath for over 15 years now …

Singularity University selects XLabs’ CEO Dr. Radhika Dirks as Lecturer for Artificial Intelligence & Quantum Computing

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Singularity University has selected XLabs CEO Dr. Radhika Dirks as Lecturer for Artificial Intelligence & Quantum Computing. At XLabs we believe that moonshot technology development is a rising sector of great importance to human progress. While the world sees a few isolated islands we see organizations like Singularity University, Alphabet’s X division, Future labs, and XLabs as spokes in a …

XLabs - moonshot factory in artificial intelligence

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There has always been a strong virtuous feedback between Art and Technology. Ultimately birthing moonshot technology is creation and shares much in common with Art. Xlabs Artist in Action program was created to be a constant source of creativity for our team. We were honored to work with Goldin+Senneby for the first of many collaborations. The art we jointly created …

Fast Company Asks XLabs How to Unlock AI’s Full Potential

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Fast Company recently asked XLabs if AI could be more than the current Silicon Valley narrative. You may have guessed we had a few thoughts to share. Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO of XLabs, a technology company building “moonshot” projects in AI, is bullish on the point. The biggest opportunity in AI is “not machines that think like us or do …