About Centaur Institute
First off…Neuro-Symbolic AI
…is emerging as the next wave of ideas in AI which are needed to provide the missing powers of reasoning and explicit semantics needed. The Centaur AI Institute and its for-profit subsidiary are helping to coordinate and lead this intellectual and commercial, paradigm shift.
It’s presence will yield unprecedented value creation for both individuals and enterprises – it is the coming wave of smarter and safer AI.
The Centaur AI Institute is funded through government research grants/contracts (e.g. NSF, DARPA, etc) and charitable donations by individuals, foundations or other organizations interested in helping to advance safe/reliable/neuro-symbolic AI. In particular the Institute can coordinate complex, multidisciplinary efforts which are otherwise difficult to put together and maintain on a long term basis.
Our Mission
The Institute is a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to illuminate the technical path to safer and more capable AI through fundamental research and advancing its adoption through education throughout the AI ecosystem.
WHO IS CENTAUR AI?
Centaur AI has its own staff, a large network of close collaborators in academia (including Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard, Yale, Purdue, Univ Sao Paulo, etc) and elsewhere who can be funded by Centaur, and many collaborators with jobs at commercial entities who work on a volunteer basis. Centaur AI forms project teams spanning experts in:
KRR: Logical reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, probabilistic graphical models, causality
ML: Deep learning, broader machine learning, reinforcement learning, statistics, data science
Computation: Algorithms, optimization, 10x programming
Beyond: Information theory, linguistics, semantics, neuroscience
WHERE IS CENTAUR AI?
Centaur AI is headquartered in California but operates via remote collaboration internationally. Centaur’s events are generally held virtually, with the exception of those that may be held as part of existing conferences such as workshops at AAAI and NeSy.
