by Angela Guess

According to a new press release out of the company, “Kimera Systems Inc. (www.kimerasystems.com) today announced its Nigel artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology became the first commercially deployable artificial intelligence technology to observe user behavior, comprehend context, and derive a common sense set of actions to apply under specific circumstances. This groundbreaking achievement in artificial intelligence comes decades before many experts believe it will be possible. ‘The ability for machines to learn common sense through observation is one of the next ‘holy grails’ in artificial intelligence,’ said Steve Ardire, advisor to AI startups including Kimera. ‘Billions of dollars have been invested in pursuit of common sense learning in AI, but no company has yet announced anything close to what Kimera just achieved. The ability to reach this milestone using smartphones is a strong indication that Nigel is both commercially deployable and scalable’.”

The release continues, “Kimera’s engineers wanted to validate how the Nigel single algorithm AGI learns, so in the first test of the currently private beta, users were instructed to go to the movies with their Nigel-enabled smartphones. There was no special programming used on Nigel, only some guidance provided to beta testers, ensuring a fully unsupervised learning test for the technology. Nigel was able to observe that a movie theater is a type of location, and that people share common behaviors with respect to their phones when they visit this type of location. Through these observations, Nigel learned to proactively dim screens and silence smartphones when people enter a cinema.”

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