Why the Future of AI Won’t Live in the Cloud with Sam Fok

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Sam Fok discusses his transition from neuroscience to creating AI chips.

What happens when a neuroscientist stops asking why the brain works the way it does and starts building his own version in silicon? Sam Fok, co-founder and CEO of femtoAI, joins Greg to explore the journey from studying neurons to designing ultra efficient AI chips for real world devices. Growing up in a household of scientists, Sam was drawn early to questions about intelligence and consciousness. That curiosity eventually led him from neuroscience labs to Stanford’s Brains in Silicon Lab an...

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Host: Greg Toroosian

Guest: Sam Fok

Topics covered

• AI
• neuroscience
• technology
• silicon chips
• intelligence
• consciousness

Keywords

• AI chips
• neuroscience
• intelligence
• consciousness
• silicon
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: femtoAI, Stanford’s Brains in Silicon Lab

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