Trailblazers 2019: Sanctuary AI's Suzanne Gildert aims to develop human-like intelligence in robots

Scientist Suzanne Gildert's dream is to create robots that are indistinguishable from humans. She's already taken the first steps towards achieving it. After completing her PhD in quantum physics, Gildert took a job at Burnaby's D-Wave Systems, one of the world's premier quantum-computing companies. Much of her work was in machine learning and AI--a field that spurred her long-standing fascination with untangling the mysteries of the human mind. Four years later, Gildert--who had spent much of her free time building her own robots--decided to try something previously relegated to the pages of science fiction.