Dr. Geordie Rose - Synthetic Minds, Cooperation & the Future of Humanity

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Published on Jan 6, 2021
Dr. Geordie Rose, founder of D-Wave â€“ the worldâ€™s first quantum computing company, and Kindred â€“ the worldâ€™s first robotics company, returns to ideacity to share his theory of understanding minds and how that is applied to AI, with the understanding that "every thought that a human has ever thought resides inside our mind.â€œ This talk will make you think.

Geordie founded D-Wave, the worldâ€™s first quantum computing company, and Kindred, the worldâ€™s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment. He has sold quantum computers and robots that learn to Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, The Gap, and several US government agencies. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from UBC, was a two-time Canadian national wrestling champion, was the 2010 NAGA world champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in both gi and no-gi categories, was named the 2011 Canadian Innovator of the Year, was one of Foreign Policy Magazineâ€™s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013, and for a short time held the Guinness Book of World Records world record for the most yogurt eaten in one minute.

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