how im building an artificial brain

Alexander A. Wolf is the founder and CEO of Artificial Brains, a startup building artificial synthetic brains designed to give robots the ability to learn and adapt in real time without massive datasets or traditional training. Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro: meet Alexander A. Wolf, founder/CEO of Artificial Brains 01:54 – Companies #1 and #2 : fashion and pharma 03:19 – Formal education vs. self-taught curiosity (coding, YouTube, Coursera) 04:45 – Why start a company at all? Passion over financial logic 06:19 – What Artificial Brains actually does 09:00 – Leading L&D for 30,000 people at UBC and why it wasn't enough 11:19 – Moving to SF, getting lukewarm traction, and deciding to dream bigger 13:19 – From a Twitter DM to being backed by Founders Inc. 14:06 – What are neuromorphic chips and spiking neural networks? 20:25 – Why Alexander thinks the neuromorphic field is headed the wrong way 22:47 – Building a synthetic neuron 24:15 – Getting a robot to move using only synthetic neurons 28:33 – Neuron anatomy 101: dendrites, cell body, axon 32:42 – Turning sensor data into spikes and spikes into robot movement 34:11 – The long-term goal: a full synthetic brain, built from "primitives" 38:00 – The breakthrough discovery in synthetic memory 39:51 – Wrap-up and what's coming in Part 2 If you want to see Part 2, let us know in the comments!