Kimera Systems Nigel AI Gets Open Beta On Android

Artificial intelligence is normally purpose-built and has a hard time expanding its horizons on its own, but one example of artificial general intelligence, dubbed Nigel by its creators at Kimera Systems, is now available for open beta testing on Android. Nigel is an artificial general intelligence that differentiates itself from its contemporaries by expanding on the usual machine learning and neural networking conventions with the addition of the ability to put concepts and knowledge together to synthesize predicted outcomes for actions, and the ability to analyze these models and predictions alongside real-world results in order to break down the various cause and effect factors at work and actually comprehend how its decisions have affected or may affect the world around it.

During the closed beta, Nigel was given no real guidance; it was simply handed over to users, and allowed to observe them and help them in any way it deemed fit. In three rather compelling examples, Nigel learned and mimicked human behavior without any help. It observed humans silencing their devices when going to movie theaters and eventually automated that process for its users, learned to reject all calls for a user during a date with their spouse except for those from the babysitter, and even learned to respond to text messages in a real-world context; when a user received a text from a late attendee to a meeting they were at, asking whether everybody had arrived, Nigel automatically shot back, “Everyone is here except you.” That bit of snark, presumably, was picked up from its user, but Kimera did not make any mention of such a function in its press release.