Leveraging its uniquely powerful artificial general intelligence technology, Novamente supplies software products and services to power
intelligent virtual agents for virtual worlds, computer games, and
simulations.
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08-2008 With financial support from the Singularity Institute and Google, Novamente contributes code and manpower toward OpenCog, an open source project to accelerate progress toward safe, beneficial artificial general intelligence.
03-2008 Novamente is a co-sponsor and Ben Goertzel presents the opening talk - "AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future" - for The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) at the FedEx Institute of Technology, U. of Memphis, Mar 1, 2008.
01-2008 With John McCarthy, Daniel Dennett, Noam Chomsky and others, Novamente's Ben Goertzel contributes a chapter, "Human-level Artificial General Intelligence and the Possibility of a Technological Singularity," to the Dec-2007 issue of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier Science Publishers).
10-2007 Goertzel publishes KurzweilAI article, "Virtual Worlds as the Catalyst for an AI Renaissance."
09-2007 With Google's Peter Norvig, MIT's Rodney Brooks and others, Goertzel presents [audio-mp3] at Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco.
07-2007 During Transvision 2007, Novamente's Ben Goertzel speaks on a panel w/ Marvin Minsky and Second Life’s Philip Rosedale.
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08-2008 Dan Kaplan [...Nintendog’s behaviors were scripted, its personality restricted to a handful of breeds. On the other hand, Novamente, a company that aims eventually to develop a super-smart artificial intelligence (AI), says that its current technology will make such limitations remnants of the past
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03-2008 Celeste Biever [...Novamente has a few tricks up its sleeve to stop people from getting bored. For starters, the synthetic characters will learn quickly as more and more people use them. Although each pet has its own "brain", Novamente's servers will pool knowledge from all the brains. So once one pet has mastered one trick, it will be much easier for another one to master it, too
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03-2008 Patrick Tucker [...Like Norvig and Pell, Ben Goertzel, a long-haired, jeans-clad AI superstar and author of From 'Complexity to Creativity' (Plenum, 1997), also sees the birth of AGI as intimately bound up in the Internet. But Goertzel believes that online games offer a more promising avenue of research than search engines alone...
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09-2007 Mark Ward [...Researchers at US firm Novamente have created software that learns by controlling avatars in virtual worlds. Initially the AIs will be embodied in pets that will get smarter by interacting with the avatars controlled by their human owners
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About Novamente
Founded in 2001, Novamente LLC is a 20+ person software company headquartered in Silicon Valley, with a development office near Washington, DC. Novamente’s current and past clients include Northrop-Grumman, the NIH Clinical Center, the CDC, Global Health Exchange, CACI, Object Sciences Corporation, Zero Degrees, Think Passenger and Electric Sheep Company. Novamente virtual agents are powered by Artificial General Intelligence technology based on the company's sophisticated, proprietary Novamente Cognition Engine.
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