For 10,000 years, civilization barely advanced. Then ~200 years ago, progress accelerated exponentially - the Great Takeoff. Can we model what actually happened? As AI becomes a cognitive member of society, the next question needs to go beyond "Is AI smart?", but "Can it

If a model observes the world - two apples, five chairs, a billion stars... but is never "taught" math, would it ever autonomously invent the concept of numbers, and ultimately math? I don't think so. To me, the ability to abstract new ontologies is the true finish line for

After decades at MIT studying how nature builds - from spider silk to bone to nacre - I've become convinced of something: the biggest barrier to scientific progress isn't knowledge, it's connection. The insights we need already exist, scattered across millions of papers and

Excited to share that together with my co-founder Markus J. Buehler , we are launching Unreasonable Labs. We’ve raised a $13.5M seed round led by @PlaygroundGlobal, with participation from AIX Ventures, E14 Fund and MS&AD Ventures to build superintelligence for knowledge