Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur
Texai
Stephen Reed is the founder of Texai.org, which is a startup to create artificial intelligence. His approach is to first construct a bootstrap English dialog system that will acquire linguistic and commonsense skills to improve its own performance. Prior to forming Texai.org, Steve worked seven years at Cycorp, Inc., the creators of the Cyc Knowledge Base, where he managed several DARPA-sponsored projects. His interests include: The Singularity, Artificial General Intelligence, AGI-suitable Computer Architecture, English Dialog Systems, Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge and Skill Acquisition, Learning, Hierarchical Control Systems, Automatic Programming, Robotics, Nanotechnology, and Life Extension. Steve authored Mapping Ontologies into Cyc (with Doug Lenat), and Semantic Annotation for Persistence.