Dileep George is an
artificial intelligence
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and
neuroscience
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researcher.
Career
George received his PhD in
Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University in 2006 and was a visiting fellow at the
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
.
In 2005, George pioneered
hierarchical temporal memory
Hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) is a biologically constrained machine intelligence technology developed by Numenta. Originally described in the 2004 book ''On Intelligence'' by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee, HTM is primarily used today for ...
and cofounded the AI research startup Numenta, Inc. with
Jeff Hawkins
Jeffrey Hawkins is a co-founder of the companies Palm Computing, where he co-created the PalmPilot, and Handspring, where he was one of the creators of the Treo.Jeff Hawkins, ''On Intelligence'', p.28
He subsequently turned to work on neurosc ...
and
Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky is an American business leader who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995. Dubinsky co-founded Numenta in ...
. In 2010, George left Numenta to join
D. Scott Phoenix in founding
Vicarious
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* Vicariousness, experiencing through another person
* Vicarious learning, observational learning
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, an AI research project funded by internet billionaires
Peter Thiel
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and
Dustin Moskovitz
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.
The
Alphabet
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-owned company Intrinsic acquired Vicarious in 2022. The AI and robotics divisions merged with Intrinsic, while the research division (including George) joined
DeepMind.
[https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/22/alphabet-owned-intrinsic-is-acquiring-fellow-robotic-software-firm-vicarious/] As of 2022, George is a Research Scientist at DeepMind.
References
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1977 births
American neuroscientists
Scientists from Kerala
Living people
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
American people of Indian descent