{"id":160312,"date":"2023-03-15T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/karl-friston-world-renowned-researcher-joins-verses-technologies-as-chief-scientist"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:23:54","slug":"karl-friston-world-renowned-researcher-joins-verses-technologies-as-chief-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/karl-friston-world-renowned-researcher-joins-verses-technologies-as-chief-scientist","title":{"rendered":"Karl Friston \u2014 World Renowned Researcher \u2014 Joins Verses Technologies as Chief Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/karl-friston-world-renowned-researcher-joins-verses-technologies-as-chief-scientist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was ranked the number 1 most influential neuroscientist in the world by Semantic Scholar in 2016, and has received numerous awards and accolades for his work. His appointment as chief scientist of Verses not only validates their platform\u2019s framework for advancing AI implementations but also highlights the company\u2019s commitment to expanding the frontier of AI research and development.<\/p>\n<p>Friston is short listed for a Nobel Prize, is one of the most cited scientists in human history with over 260,000 academic citations, and invented all of the mathematics behind the fMRI scan. As one pundit put it, \u201cwhat Einstein was to physics, Friston is to Intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed Friston\u2019s expertise will be invaluable in helping the company execute its vision of deploying a plethora of technologies working toward a smarter world through AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was ranked the number 1 most influential neuroscientist in the world by Semantic Scholar in 2016, and has received numerous awards and accolades for his work. His appointment as chief scientist of Verses not only validates their platform\u2019s framework for advancing AI implementations but also highlights the company\u2019s commitment to expanding the frontier of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}