VentureBeat January 15, 2025
François Chollet, a former Google engineer and the creator of the widely-used Python deep learning framework Keras, has co-founded Ndea, a new AI research and science lab, alongside Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier.
In a post on the startup’s new website, the founders explain their goals of combining intuitive pattern recognition, enabled by deep learning, with formal reasoning through what they call “guided program synthesis.”
They say that this fusion will allow AI systems to adapt and innovate far beyond current task-specific applications, ultimately leading to artificial general intelligence (AGI), defined loosely throughout the AI community as machine intelligence that can outperform human beings at most economically valuable and cognitive tasks. As they write:
“We need computers that can pose...
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