i-ese

i-ese: a human-machine interface
It seems that people who are scared by a life expectancy of 300 (or more) years are almost all scared by one thing: boredom. As we come to know more about the universe and our place in it, we gradually become more intelligent. Moreover, we live in a global world, every instant in the middle of a storm of stimulations. As a result, it is becoming hardier and hardier to find real fun, something that it is as “intelligent” as we are and stands out from the crowd of “normal” inputs. We believe that Artificial Intelligence will play a lead role in the extension of our life. Machines will be useful not just to understand our mind, but they will also provide us with a lot of fun.

The first thing needed to achieve this amazing result is the creation of a language that enables easy, yet rich, communications between human beings and computers. This is why iLabs researchers are working on “i-ese”, a new language for human-machine communication. i-ese main feature is perhaps its Leibnizian flavor: instead of a classical common-sense hierarchy of concepts, iLabs language prefers an ultimate-bricks-of-Reality structure. That is, using a sketchy but powerful representation of a “Universe”, i-ese combinatorially builds new concepts out of simpler, old ones.

Learn more:
Berto F., Rossi G., Tagliabue J., The Mathematics of Models of Reference, Texts in Computing, 2010