Candidature YC de Well Principled
Well Principled a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Summer 2019 en tant qu'entreprise B2B. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.
- Batch YC
- Summer 2019
- Secteur d'activité
- B2B
- Taille de l'équipe
- 3
- Statut
- Active
- Lancé
- 2019
Fondateurs
Ryan RichtFounder
Christopher ShaferFounder
Joseph WingbermuehleFounder
Ce que fait Well Principled
We aren’t building AI to replace "knowledge work” that requires neither, but to bolster the working human intellect which has never failed to discover new paths to prosperity. For all their success, mainstream approaches to AI have fundamental limitations preventing them from solving critical classes of problems. We are building a new AI architecture from first principles to break from these limitations. The status quo has ossified around the supervised, brute-force pretraining paradigm. These systems do not, and cannot, handle the essential skills of continual learning, goal discovery, novel planning, and the creation of new knowledge. These limitations are not trivial. Our national prosperity depends directly on overcoming these limitations, because the essential skills underlie the skilled trades. From electricians to machinists to nurses, apprentice tradespeople in all of these fields learn “skilled improvisation” where every solution is novel, and even the goal must be discovered. Prosperity demands the precise capabilities where status quo AI is structurally weak. Worse, these limitations will not be overcome with more compute or training data. They are inescapable consequences of the underlying technologies of supervised learning, neural networks, transformers, backprop, and gradient descent. Progress requires independence from them. We are building a new AI architecture by reverse-engineering the system that got us this far: the human brain. By triangulating between neuroscience, cognitive science, and the evolutionary elaboration of brains, we have identified the brain’s algorithms to (a) continually learn a causal world model (b) select goals to both achieve and learn to achieve more (c) plan to reach novel goals, and (d) creatively produce new knowledge. Join us in building intelligence with ingenuity to bolster the skilled trades.
Candidature YC de Well Principled, reconstruite
Candidature Y Combinator
Well Principled, promotion Summer 2019. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Well Principled
The neural engine for autonomous robots
We are building a new AI architecture modeled on the human brain to enable robots to learn continually, discover goals, plan novel solutions, and create new knowledge. This breaks from current AI methods that rely on supervised learning and large datasets, which fail at tasks requiring skilled improvisation. Our product is intended for autonomous robots that need to operate in complex, dynamic environments like skilled trades - electricians, machinists, nurses - where every problem and goal can be new.
We live in St. Louis, Missouri, and our company is based here after YC.
We are based in St. Louis because it's home to the founders and provides an environment suited to our small team and focused research. We plan to remain here after YC, taking advantage of the local context and building from our roots.
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Questions fréquemment posées
Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Well Principled ?
Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Well Principled (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Well Principled se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.
À quel batch YC Well Principled appartenait-il ?
Well Principled faisait partie du batch Summer 2019 de Y Combinator.
Qui a fondé Well Principled ?
Well Principled a été fondé par Ryan Richt, Christopher Shafer, Joseph Wingbermuehle.
Que fait Well Principled ?
The neural engine for autonomous robots
Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?
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