Extract cause and effect
The engine reads scientific literature at scale and extracts the cause-and-effect claims buried across millions of papers.
Toward the technological singularity
The laws of nature, as causal graphs.
Une Intelligence is a causal engine. It reads science at scale and builds causal graphs of how the world works, moving one edge closer to the intelligence Laplace once imagined.
The founding idea
Laplace called it Une Intelligence
In 1814 Pierre-Simon Laplace imagined an intellect that knew every force and every position in nature. To such a mind, nothing would be uncertain: the future and the past would lie open before it. He wrote of it in French simply as une intelligence. Later readers named it Laplace's Demon.
We take the name, and the ambition, literally: to represent the laws of nature as a causal graph a machine can traverse.
“An intellect which at a given moment knew all the forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain, and the future, just like the past, would be present before its eyes.”
The engine
Not one graph, but many
Une Intelligence is an engine for building causal graphs, not a single fixed map. It can grow broad graphs of all we know, focused graphs for one research area, and competing graphs that let rival theories be tested side by side.
Build competing graphs
Instead of one canonical graph, it assembles many: broad graphs, domain-specific graphs for a single field, and rival graphs that disagree.
Reason and compare
Traverse mechanisms, test interventions, and pit competing graphs against each other to see which best explains the evidence.
Voices
On intelligence, cause, and the singularity
The thinkers who charted the path from knowing the laws of nature to building a mind that could hold them all.
“I set the date for the Singularity, representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability, as 2045.”
“These things could get more intelligent than us and could decide to take over, and we need to worry now about how we prevent that.”
“It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days.”
“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.”
“Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”
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