Underlying Novamente's virtual agents products and services is a powerful, proprietary approach to machine intelligence, covered by a series of pending patents. Unlike most AI approaches that are focused on highly specialized "narrow AI" techniques, Novamente's technology base is founded on the notion of Artificial General Intelligence. Our Novamente Cognition Engine possesses the most thoroughly articulated Artificial General Intelligence architecture on the planet. Our long term R&D plan involves developing the NCE toward greater and greater general intelligence, while utilizing successively more powerful versions of the NCE to power our virtual-agents products and services.
"Computer science professor and AI entrepreneur Ben Goertzel has written a series of books and articles that describe strategies and architectures for combining the diverse methods underlying intelligence. His Novamente architecture is intended to provide a framework for general-purpose AI."