Cognitive AI: how bots will acquire their inner human touch
Interview with Futuremaker: Nikolas Kairinos
Introduction
Nikolas Kairinos is the founder of Fountech Ventures; he spends most of his time in his primary role as the CEO and founder of Soffos.ai. He is a pioneer and thought leader in the incubation and funding of early-stage cognitive AI ventures. Additionally, he is an advisor to companies seeking to build in-house cognitive AI capabilities or are looking to craft cognitive AI solutions. Nikolas nis a polymath who draws on knowledge from neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, statistics, physics, mathematics, and the arts in his endeavor to learn to instill human traits into machines.
Nikolas, a veteran of the AI industry, weathered its winter in the 1980s before riding the wave of its resurgence in the 2000s, and thereafter. His sweet spot is the frontiers of cognitive AI that contribute to human-like attributes such as reasoning, and emotion.
Mr. Kairinos spent most of his time programming and researching even as a boy, and his friends were older boys with the same interests. He enrolled in a university, with the intention of earning a doctoral degree in computer science and AI, but was disillusioned by the formal curriculum with little immersion in AI. In some cases…
