Richard Socher

Hey there, I am the CEO/Founder of you.com, the first chat-search assistant.

I also invest in and mentor other startups at AIX Ventures where I’m founder and managing partner.

Bio:

Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce, where he lead teams working on fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, search, customer service automation and a cross-product AI platform for unstructured and structured data. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University in 2014 and later served as an adjunct professor in the CS department at Stanford.

He is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors, contextual vectors and prompt engineering. He has over 180,000 citations and won awards such as the best computer science PhD thesis awards at Stanford in 2014, honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. h. c.) from the TU Dresden, the ICML 2011 best paper award, 2016 Young Global Leader at WEF, the Microsoft PhD Fellowship, the test of time award at ACL 2023 for a paper from 2013, the PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize for ImageNet, 2024 WEF Technology pioneers with you.com, the 2023 Time Magazine’s Time100 AI, first place at the local LaserTag one random Friday evening and more.

Outside of work, Richard enjoys paramotor adventures and photography.

More info:

• Forbes article with more info about my bio.

• New York Times article on a project at Salesforce Research.

• CS224n - NLP with Deep Learning class I used to teach.

• TEDx talk about where AI is today and where it's going.

• My Twitter account for announcements and photos.

As of 2024, this was a fun podcast that covers a lot of topics that are top of mind for me right now: AI, ASI, startups, search, answer and productivity engines and more: