WELCOME TO ICE 9
We're building the future!
“No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's... and... no damn cat, no damn cradle.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Cats Cradle
WHAT IS ICE 9?
Ice 9 Innovations is a dream of the future. We believe that the future is here, now. The present is full of the building blocks of the future. Everything we need to build the world of our dreams is here right now. By combining what we have in new and unique ways, the future can be unlocked. We are building the impossible from the possible.
Have a question? Contact us at info@ice9.ai
PRODUCTS
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Denis Gabor, Nobel Prize Winner
Window to the World is a window that watches you. It learns your preferences and shows you what you want to see. It gives you more of what you like and less of what you don’t.
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short stories, The Aleph and The Garden of Forking Paths, Window to the World is a preference engine as described by Alan Turing in a note addressed to Lady Ada Lovelace in his 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
Window to the World is under development.
We are currently in the closed beta stage and are testing several improvements to the product.
For more information, contact us here
GitHub
Flowers is a companion app to Window to the World allowing human users to create and filter a stream of images based on their preferences, similar to the popular dating app, Tinder. The goal of flowers is to create clean data to feed back as training data for Window to the World and other AI products.
Flowers prototype is available here:
“Consciousness is simply an emergent property of the system.”
Jeff Hawkins - On Intelligence
Ice9 is a new form of Emergent Intelligence that functions as a brain cell. It is an extension to the current neuron model as used in neural networks. It is a digital brain cell, specifically an optic nerve.
What is Emergent Intelligence™
Emergent Intelligence is a software driven decision making process. Much like natural intelligence, Emergent Intelligence is not hard coded into the system. It emerges through education and experience.
Is this “living” software?
Yes.
Is it conscious?
Probably not. Or rather not yet. One brain cell cannot, by itself achieve consciousness, however many brain cells can.
Does this use traditional machine learning methods?
Yes and no. It uses a hot swappable cell based model which includes more familiar methods of machine learning as cellular components. The rest of it can safely be described as “non-traditional.”
How is this different from traditional methods?
The prevailing models of artificial intelligence currently rely on a neuron-based approach, that is an axon and a dendrite which spikes when it is activated. Whether in software or hardware, the core of this model is based on modeling a neuron with as much fidelity as possible.
Simply put, we are modeling a different nerve cell. The cell we are modeling is called a retinal ganglion cell and they are part of the optic nerve bundle that you and other mammals use to see.
Why did you create this project?
We believe that by changing the model, we change the question that is being asked by artificial intelligence.
AI has powerfully reshaped our world, but we fully believe that the current neurological model is lacking the true power to deliver the results that people expect from AI. By changing the model, we redefine the question being asked by cognitive software. By changing the question, we change the answer.
By changing the answer, we change the world.