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Vicarious (company), the Glossary

Vicarious was an artificial intelligence company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.^[1]

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Software companies established in 2010

Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo (born August 14, 1984) is an American internet entrepreneur.

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Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Vicarious (company) and Alphabet Inc. are software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Artificial general intelligence

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam. Vicarious (company) and CAPTCHA are computer vision.

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Chief technology officer

A chief technology officer (CTO) (also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization.

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D. Scott Phoenix

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Dileep George

Dileep George is an artificial intelligence and neuroscience researcher.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Donna Dubinsky

Donna Dubinsky is an American businesswoman who played a role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs), as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995.

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Dustin Moskovitz

Dustin Aaron Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) is an American billionaire internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook, Inc. (now known as Meta Platforms) with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm formed in 2005 and has roughly $12 billion in total assets under management as of 2023.

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Generative model

In statistical classification, two main approaches are called the generative approach and the discriminative approach.

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Glossary of artificial intelligence

This glossary of artificial intelligence is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to the study of artificial intelligence, its sub-disciplines, and related fields.

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Good Ventures

Good Ventures is a private foundation and philanthropic organization in San Francisco, and the fifth largest foundation in Silicon Valley.

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Graphical model

A graphical model or probabilistic graphical model (PGM) or structured probabilistic model is a probabilistic model for which a graph expresses the conditional dependence structure between random variables.

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Janus Friis

Janus Friis (born 26 June 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype.

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Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (and Robinson (2010), p. 7.; born January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

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Jeff Hawkins

Jeffrey Hawkins is an American businessman, neuroscientist and engineer.

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Jerry Yang

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.

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Luis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn (born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur, software developer, and consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

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Marc Benioff

Marc Russell Benioff (born September 25, 1964) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman.

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Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies Inc. is a public American company that specializes in software platforms for big data analytics.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Quora

Quora is a social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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Salesforce

Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Vicarious (company) and Salesforce are software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.

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Series A round

A series A is the name typically given to a company's first significant round of venture capital financing.

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Skype

Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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X Development

X Development LLC, doing business as X (formerly Google X), is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010. Vicarious (company) and x Development are 2010 establishments in California.

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator Management, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_(company)

Also known as Recursive Cortical Network.

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