Ep. 170: The story of the first AGI David Jilk

FUTURATI PODCAST by Thomas Frey

Oct 22, 202445:03Technology

David Jilk joins us for round two! After finishing MIT, David founded eCortex, a company that wound up being a solid 20 years ahead of the curve on deep learning, and later worked on cognitive models for IARPA. He has fo...

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