This is an Overheard@X short with Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO of XLabs. It’s a brief dive into the deep roots of AI. David Hilbert in 1900 gave an address in Paris to the International Congress of Mathematicians that inspired much of the world we live in today. We believe that understanding the roots of the concepts others take for granted …
Mental Model Arbitrage(MMA) is an important fuel for Moonshots here at XLabs. By building in one field with assembled structures from elsewhere we are able to make fantastic leaps. At it’s heart, MMA is about getting very good at making analogies, then using those analogies to transfer knowledge and know how from one place to another. Douglas R. Hofstadter, author …
Artificial Intelligence is the headline on everyone’s lips and it’s a massive opportunity. The popular picture though is that AIs will soon replace most tasks (read ‘our jobs’). But if that’s all you are hearing, you are missing the much bigger opportunity. AI is about much more than the economics of replacing people. It’s about leveraging new kinds of intelligence …
What is AI? Quick video summary of the blog. What is artificial intelligence? Is that AI? RandomStartup.ai told me they use AI, but that’s not really AI…is it? I know neural nets are AI. But I want the one with the deep learning, right? What’s deep about it any way, does it write poetry? Speaking of, why does AI play …
XLabs CEO, Dr. Radhika Dirks addressed the Age of AI Conference today in San Francisco. Her talk, titled “Artificial Alchemy and Impossible Intelligences” took a look at the forgotten historical context of Alan Turing’s work and traced it to the modern unquestioned assumptions in Computer Science and AI which may be holding the field back, in particular looking at unconventional …
On a gorgeous fall Sunday, top hand-picked artificial intelligence technologists gathered in a secluded Sonoma winery to discuss building incredibly ambitious AI. Designed and hosted by XLabs in honor of Ada Lovelace, the parlor merged Otium with spirited technical and scientific dialogues on building AI moonshots. The Parlor is an homage to the Countess of Lovelace: Ada, mathematician, cobuilder of the …
Small step for Humans, Giant Leap for Machines This is the first installment of an ongoing series in which we seek inspiration for improved AI by studying strategies from humanity’s brilliant minds. For the introduction to the series see here. The human being is the most fearsome technology in known existence. We can often accomplish much more by simply giving our …
You are reading the first installment of a blog series that goes through five steps that brilliant people use to be brilliant, in an attempt to make useful connections with actual and potential methods of improving Artificial Intelligence(AI). In each installment, I break down one thing that brilliant people do and attempt to connect it with actual, or potential AI …
Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO of XLabs gave a keynote on “Rage of AI” at one of Europe’s largest tech conferences DNB NEXT in Oslo, Norway. From the road she had this to say about the experience: “At 1200+ my largest audience till date! Had such an amazing time at DNB Next Oslo keynoting with the Crown Prince & getting people …
Watch Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO of XLabs AI discuss the future of AI & Hardware with leading AI investors at the historic Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. The panel was part of PRG’s Hardware Symposium held in Mountain View in September 2017.