A DAD who created a billion-pound start-up business has revealed the secret to his success. <\/p>\n
Emad Mostaque, 40, is the founder and CEO of artificial intelligence giant Stability AI and has recently been in talks with the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. <\/p>\n
But the London dad-of-two has worked hard to get where he is today - and doesn't plan on stopping any time soon. <\/p>\n
Emad has gone from developing AI at home to help his autistic son, to employing 150 people across the globe for his billion-pound empire. <\/p>\n
The 40-year-old usually calls Notting Hill home, but has started travelling to San Francisco for work. <\/p>\n
On his most recent trip, Emad met with Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, and made a deal with Musk, the CEO of Twitter. <\/p>\n
He says the secret to his success in the AI world is using it to help humans, not overtake them. <\/p>\n
Emad told The Times: I have a different approach to everyone else in this space, because Im building narrow models to augment humans, whereas almost everyone else is trying to build an AGI [Artificial general intelligence] to pretty much replace humans and look over them.<\/p>\n
Emad is from Bangladesh but his parents shifted to the UK when he was a boy and settled the family in London's Walthamstow.<\/p>\n
The dad said he was always good at numbers in school but struggled socially as he has Aspergers and ADHD. <\/p>\n
The 40-year-old studied computer science and maths at Oxford, then became a hedge fund manager.<\/p>\n
But when Emad's son was diagnosed with autism he quit to develop something to help the youngster. <\/p>\n
Emad recalled: We built an AI to look at all the literature and then extract what could be the case, and then the drug repurposing.<\/p>\n
He says that homemade AI allowed his family create an approach that took his son to a better, more cheerful place. <\/p>\n
And, as a result, Emad inspired himself. <\/p>\n
He started a charity that aims to give tablets loaded with AI tutors to one billion children. <\/p>\n
He added: Can you imagine if every child had their own AI looking out for them, a personalised system that teaches them and learns from them?<\/p>\n
\"In 10 to 20 years, when they grow up, those kids will change the world.<\/p>\n
Emad also founded the billion-pound start-up Stability AI in recent years, and it's one of the companies behind Stable Diffusion. <\/p>\n
The tool has taken the world by storm in recent months with its ability to create images that could pass as photos from a mere text prompt. <\/p>\n
Today, Emad is continuing to develop AI - and he says it is one of the most important inventions of history. <\/p>\n
He explained it as somewhere between fire and the internal combustion engine.<\/p>\n
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