Rachel St. Clair, co-founder of Simuli AI startup Simuli is fundamentally reinventing how people interact with the data their systems depend on. In the intersection between human cognition, quantum mechanics, and artificial intelligence sits Rachel St. Clair, PhD, co-founder, and CEO of Simuli, who is realizing the exponential potential of AI computation through Simuli’s hyperdimensional AI approach. While studying for her undergraduate degree in biology, Dr. Rachel St. Clair met her future PhD advisor in a seminar on artificial intelligence. This was much before everyone and their mother were asking AI models to write their college essays, but Rachel already knew that the future lay in AI. “In that seminar room, I was thinking that if I wanted to change the world, this was going to be the way to do it,” she recalls. In a few years, AI models came into existence exactly as Rachel had predicted. Pioneering as she is, Dr. St. Clair went on to complete her PhD in a joint program in Brain Sciences and Complex Systems, whose combination is essentially AI and spent much of her time in the sandbox with peers equally excited about its revolutionary capacity. Simultaneously, her dissertation led her to a deep understanding of the relationship between cognition and how the brain processes information. It was this dialectic between the human brain and AI that led her to the founding principle of Simuli today: the more resource-efficient an AI system is, the smarter it can be. One of the few female executives in deep technology, Rachel, etches at the boundary of reinventing computation. While Dr. St. Clair’s home base of neuroscience has seen women shattering glass ceilings since the early 1900s, deep technology’s advancement towards similar levels of gender parity is noticeably trailing behind in representation and investment. Despite the lack of precedent and mentorship behind the strides Rachel continues to make in the space, she represents deep tech’s potential within the interstices of technology and human existence. Plainly, the driving force behind her will to build a greater AGI system is because Rachel is an AGI scientist. “At the end of the day, my core nature is to discover the fundamental truths of reality. If human thinking can be modeled by a human-like system, then the truth I’m looking for lies in an AGI,” she says. Rachel, together with Simuli co-founder Binoy Syed, looked at the state of computing before them, along with the fledgling use cases of quantum computing, and saw a path for true artificial general intelligence (AGI) to become truly meaningful in people’s everyday lives. If the biggest problem with artificial intelligence is its appalling energy inefficiency, “Then we can solve it by borrowing principles of human intelligence,” explains Rachel. The Simuli hyperdimensional AI, set for full release in 2027, will transform how data lives and moves. This change comes from Rachel’s neuroscientific approach: fewer bits mean higher throughput, increased speed, and reduced power usage. Simuli’s scalable and climate-friendly model will directly compute and compress data safer, smarter, and more efficiently than the best classical AI models currently available. By utilizing holographic principles, the fully integrated, autonomous system can compress data through fixed-point hyperdimensional lossless representations and directly compute that data. Inequality within her industry and the wider world is a key motivation behind Dr. St. Clair taking on the formidable task of developing AGI and making it accessible to all. “Everyone deserves a say in what their futures are going to look like, and AI will be a part of that future,” Rachel explains. “The dream is that AI enables everyone to live better lives with fewer troubles and prevent suffering. Right now, that’s impossible because AI is too inefficient and too expensive. Simuli is going to make that dream true by making AI cheaper and democratized.” Additionally, a more efficient and democratic approach to AI not only saves nations and companies resources and time; it is also the only way to make AI more intelligent. Simuli strives for that utopic vision of a super-intelligent human-like AI by lowering the barriers to entry and making AGI possible. Instead of reserving the potential of AI to a handful of technology corporations, the brightest minds on this planet—regardless of where they live—can contribute to the growth of AI systems through Simuli’s hyperdimensional AI. As Rachel states, “I’d like to live in a world without constant existential fear. In order to live there, we need more intelligent AI. And, for AI to be truly intelligent, it has got to become cheaper to use.” The post Rachel St. Clair and Simuli Combine Human Mind with Hyperdimensional Computing for Truly Intelligent and Accessible AI appeared first on LA Weekly.