Last month, @RichardSSutton and I left Keen to do our own thing. I had ~two absolutely wonderful years at Keen, and I learned a lot working with John, Gloria, Joseph, and the rest of the team. If you want to work on some of the foundational unsolved problems in AI, such as continual learning, then I would strongly recommend applying to Keen. Going forward, Rich and I have founded a small company called Oak Lab. We have a fairly complete roadmap to building animal-like intelligence that learns purely from its own experience (the OaK architecture), and Oak Lab is going to follow this roadmap aggressively with a small, focused team. We will be sharing our progress often and aim to build a prototype of the complete OaK architecture in the next few years. A successful prototype will be closer to a baby learning in its first year than it will be to any of the current AI systems. Our strategy is to demonstrate the limitations of current methods in simple settings, and then work out algorithms that overcome these limitations in a domain-independent way. Only after we have made sufficient progress on the core algorithms will we build large-scale artifacts. If you are interested in learning about some of the specifics of our approach, then follow @oaklab_ai. We will be sharing more details in the coming weeks and months.