Adam Torres and Paul Lee discuss Mind.ai.
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Show Notes:
Mission Matters covered the 2023 Korea Conference in Marina Del Rey, California. In this episode, Adam Torres and Paul Lee, Founder & CEO at Mind.ai, explore Paul’s vision for Mind.ai and the 2023 Korea Conference.
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About Paul Lee
Clinician, scientist and an entrepreneur. Paul is the Founder and CEO of Mind AI that leads the endeavor of open and decentralized AI worldwide. He is also the Co-founder of Synesis One. A graduate of St Paul’s School and University of Oxford with a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, he received an M.D. from The School of Medicine at Catholic University of Korea. Paul is also a graduate of Futuremed at Singularity University 2013 and Exponential Medicine 2014. As CEO & Co-founder of Curely and Kuddly, he grew the platform into one of the largest media channels in the US for the health and pet health industry with a viewership of over 6Billion. He served in the ROKA as a lieutenant doctor and a director of Pogok public health center in Yong-in. Paul also cofounded JNP LAB in Seoul that acts as a development hub for global exponential technologies. He also holds a position as the managing partner at Impact Asia.
About Mind.ai.
Mind AI is an artificial intelligence engine and an ecosystem that was created to offer an entirely new approach to AI. Rather than building an architecture that requires parallel processing, supercomputers, and large amounts of data, we built its core reasoning engine based on an internationally patented, completely new data structure that we call a canonical.
Full Unedited Transcript
Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres and I’m so thrilled to announce, hey, we’re on a yacht in Marina Del Rey and we’re at the Korea conference and today I’m interviewing Paul Lee. So first off, Hey, I just want to say, Paul, welcome to the show. Thank you, Adam.
Thank you for having me. All right, Paul. So I told Jenny ahead of this, I said, Hey, bring me the people that I should be talking to bring me the people I want to interview. And she says, I got you covered, Adam, don’t worry. So Paul was one of those people. So first off, Paul, maybe tell us a little bit more about your business and what you do.
Thank you. So I am the founder and the CEO of Mind. ai. Now, Mind. ai is not just your large language model AI that you see today. In comparison to the chat GPTs or the GPT 4, 5, 6, you know, we’re very different. We focus on natural language reasoning and we focus on what we call the neuro symbolic model.
So it’s very different from the machine learning and deep learning technologies and it’s not actually competitive. To the large language models or machine learning and deep learning technologies is actually very complimentary. So as you know, Adam, the AI space is huge and not one company. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Amazon, Facebook, you know, Google or Microsoft.
They’re not going to be able to dominate the whole industry. So it’s like a lot of companies need to cooperate and need to collaborate together to form what we call artificial general intelligence. And for Mind. ai, we want to do our part in natural language reasoning. And so when you think about the Korea conference, one of the other things I want to do is, I know every single year this thing is getting bigger and bigger.
A lot of corporate executives are going to be watching this and they’re going to say, man, I wish I would have been there next year. We, we already know it’s going to be bigger. So why did you feel it was important to come to Korea conference and get mind AI and your ideas in front of this amazing community that we’re looking at?
Right. Absolutely. I mean, the most important thing is the career conference. Bridges the Korean startup world with the States, and it’s very important that we, as Mind. ai, get our presence here in North America as well. So we wanted to make sure we meet the right people you know, form relationships and partnerships here, and it was a great jump.
Yeah. So going just a little bit further into, into mind AI. So you mentioned that you’re, you’re obviously going into the, the natural language space. Like what is the vision look like as you continue to scale that out? And so not just the U S but just in beyond. Sure. So our ultimate goal is to become a key component of the CPU of the AI industry.
So that’s very, very important because as you know, When we talk about artificial intelligence, the most important word there is intelligence. And if you look at the dictionary term for intelligence, it’s actually the capability or the ability to be able to reason. So being able to you know, put the reasoning capability into an algorithm is very, very important for the future of AI.
So a lot of things going on in your your day to day in this space, you’ve obviously you’re obviously advancing it. And this is where you put your chips as a founder of a company. What excites you most about what’s going on right now? First of all, I mean, the most important thing is AI is getting all the spotlight.
Yeah, you’re the rock stars right now, for sure. 100%. So that’s that’s fantastic. Now, that also means there’s a lot of responsibility behind that. So being able to deliver the product, being able to move that industry a little bit further so that it really does, you know, help you, you know, mankind not hurt it.
And that’s exactly what we’re trying to do at mind. ai. A lot of the news right now. So for context for everybody watching, we’re recording this in August of 2023. So a lot of, a lot of the news about things like. Bias or like what, what it’s taking, what the AI is actually, you know, taking in, in order to give an output, like, what are your kind of thoughts on some of the things that are going, and I don’t mean necessarily that specific topic, but just the, the social responsibility as we move forward with AI, like, what are your thoughts on that?
I think it’s very, very important. I think the ethical grounds are essential for AI. Now, right now, machine learning and you know, deep learning technologies. They require tons and tons of data, but also these data need to be labeled and annotated by humans. Now, whilst doing that, there are misinformation or mis kind of inputs of the data that can bias the data at its whole.
So it’s garbage in garbage out. So how can we make a filter that prevents the large language models from hallucinating? How can we prevent it from the model shifting that’s occurring right now? And also, how can we prevent privacy, you know, loss for, for the large companies or any company that’s using these technologies?
So Paul, I like to for long time listeners of this show, they know. I like to ask kind of like a pay it forward question to the next generation of founders. So there’s a lot of people that have watched this that are maybe not quite as far along. They may be a little bit younger. They’re getting into AI.
They kind of have these ideas. Like what would your tips be to that next generation of AI founders as they get their ideas and they want to launch? So I think the most important thing is I think you need to try to be original. The thing that I think that was very important for mind AI was. We did not follow the footsteps of the machine learning or the deep learning crowd at all.
So we made sure that we had to have our original content original algorithm so that we could actually be complementary to the big techs and that’s the only way we believe that we can survive because we’re not going to have the resources or the data that these, you know, big techs have, we need to be able to differentiate ourselves, but also hang in there, you know, and that’s very, very important.
And I think you’re, to me, your answer is indicative of really the art of all of this because it is an art to it. So what you just now said, I mean, there’s a, there’s a lot of lessons and takeaways there. So whether original content, like what, what, how many industries does that cross, right? Be unique, have have a different play, a different angle.
Like I think it’s wonderful. And I think there’s a lot of insight. Thank you so much. Well, Paul, hey, I just want to say really appreciate you coming on the show and making some time for our audience. I know there’s a lot of people here, a lot of things you have to do, but if some of my audience or anybody else watching this wants to learn more about Mind.
ai and to follow the progress and the journey, I mean, I want you to look into the camera and tell them how they do it. Please come to visit us at mind. ai and if you have any questions, you know, shoot an email to us. Fantastic. And thank you. And to the audience as always, Hey, really appreciate you tuning in.
If you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe button because we have many more mission based individuals coming up on the line and we don’t want you to miss a thing. Paul, thank you again so much for coming on the show. And I look forward to watching the continued progress of Mind. ai. Lovely. Thank you very
