National Geographic: Genius Vicarious has been featured in National Geographic magazine’s article on Genius. Read the full article here



Artificial Intelligence at Work Dileep George spoke at EmTech 2016 about common sense and the ability to model the world. Watch the talk here: http://events.technologyreview.com/video/watch/dileep-george-vicarious-ai-work/

This Week In Startups Interview with Scott Phoenix Vicarious co-founder Scott Phoenix on innovating in AI & the race to unlock the human brain to create artificial general intelligence, the last tech humans will invent. See the full episode at thisweekinstartups.com or watch a short extract on twitter

Berggruen Workshop on AI The Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Center workshops on AI at Stanford were held in March 2016.

A short segment from Scott discussing how human invention is limited by biology can be found here, and a summary of the workshop can be found here.

Interview with Scott Phoenix in Forbes In-depth interview with Vicarious co-founder in Forbes discussing artificial intelligence research, entrepreneurship and the future of Vicarious. Read the interview here

No, the robots are not about to rise up and destroy us all it is very, very unlikely that a robot would ever be smart enough to devise a way to dry the world’s oceans without being smart enough to understand why that would be a problem

Read the World Economic Forum featured blog post by Dileep George here

Killer robots? Superintelligence? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Opinion piece in the Washington Post by Dileep George on the path towards AGI. AGI will be created gradually, over the course of many years. The scenarios presented by movies and the media are an exaggerated picture of the actual risks. The headlines might lead you to believe that AGI is imminent, but scientists actually working on the problems will tell you otherwise. A lot more research is needed before we can build AGI.

Read the article here

‘We have this remarkable ability to create any kind of world we can imagine’ Article in The Guardian about one of our investors, Bryan Johnson, and his venture capital firm, The OS Fund, backing entrepreneurs who are working toward “quantum-leap discoveries” that promise to rewrite “the operating system of life”. Read more here



Artificial Intelligence Leaders Answer AI’s Most Burning Questions (Part I) Interview with Dileep George, Adam Cheyer (co-founder of Siri) and David Ackley (Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico) Read the first part here



Samsung and Wipro Invest in Vicarious Vicarious’s partnerships with companies such as ABB, Samsung and Wipro are aimed at applying its research into products and learning how to better develop technology.

“Our technology is a very long-term bet, and we want to interface with the other long-term bets being made by big companies,”

Read more at bloomberg.com

How Artificial Intelligence is Getting Even Smarter Artificial intelligence can already do remarkable things – but it could do much more if it could perceive, learn and think like a human. Scott discusses how Vicarious, one of the World Economic Forum’s 2015 class of Technology Pioneers, is working to make that leap. Read the article here

Vicarious selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum The full list of recognized Technology Pioneers can be found here



The Future of Computers Is the Mind of a Toddler An AI with something resembling brain memory would be able to discern the highlights of what it sees, and use the information to shape its understanding of things over time. To do that, the world’s top researchers are rethinking how machines store information, and they’re turning to neuroscience for inspiration. Read more at Bloomberg