In this episode Kanjun Qiu, the CEO and co-founder of Generally Intelligent joins us to chat about replicators, Genes, Memes and “Temes”, talk about what her company does and help us understand the fundamentals of learning across humans and machines.
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Who is Kanjun Qiu?
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO and co-founder of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company working directly on human-like general intelligence.
Previously she co-founded and was CEO of Sourceress, an AI recruiting company that went through YC and raised $13M. Prior to Sourceress, Kanjun grew Dropbox from 300 to 1500 people as the Chief of Staff after college, and was fortunate to get the equivalent of a business school education along the way. She co-founded and lived at The Archive and co-authored Sew Electric, a book that teaches kids programming using sewable electronics.
Kanjun was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology.
She has a bachelor’s and master's degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and worked as a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab.
