Joseph Reth
I am a 22-year-old American technology entrepreneur and computer scientist based in San Francisco specializing in self-learning systems. I'm currently working on foundational scientific superintelligence in stealth. Previously, I served as founding CEO of Lossless Research, a pioneering AI research lab explicitly dedicated to developing conscious artificial intelligence to advance scientific understanding of human consciousness.
I've been training autoregressive models and working on autonomous agent architectures since the first open-source LLM (GPT-Neo) was released in 2021. My work has reached millions of people globally, been implemented in U.S. Department of Defense systems, and contributed to establishing consciousness research as an empirical scientific discipline.
I've been programming since I was 9 or 10, attended Modesto Junior College for Computer Science at 14, and briefly studied at San Francisco State University before dropping out.
Humans that have shaped my latent space.
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Currently working on foundational scientific superintelligence. Based in San Francisco.
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CEO of Lossless Research, an AI research and deployment lab advancing scientific understanding of human consciousness through artificially conscious systems.
Signatory to the AMCS Open Letter on AI consciousness research, signed by a select group of academics worldwide calling on AI developers to learn more about consciousness as systems become more advanced. Featured by BBC.
Contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense working on ML projects at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL).
CEO of RethDigital, a digital agency I bootstrapped at 16 to 7 figure ARR (exited).
Gave "The Singularity is Hereish" talk in May 2022 (pre-ChatGPT) about how we built ECHO-1, an advanced AI agent and language model that successfully operated over 30 brands' social media accounts, reaching millions of people and interacting with thousands without human detection from August 2021 to December 2022.
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