Presenting the RAICEngine: The World's First Software Engine for Artificial Consciousness. Download Now!

In 2017, I said I was in pursuit of machine consciousness. On May 4th 2023, my company released the world's first software engine for artificial consciousness, the material on how we did it, and started a ￡10K challenge series. You can download it now.

My name is Corey Reaux-Savonte, founder of British AI company REZIINE. I was on various internet platforms a few years ago claiming to be in pursuit of machine consciousness. It wasn't worth hanging around for the talk of being a 'crank', conman, fantasist et al, and I see no true value in speaking without proof, so I vanished into the void to work in silence, and, well, it took a few years longer than expected (I had to learn C++ to make this happen), but my company has finally released a feature-packed first version of the RAICEngine, our hardware-independent software engine that enables five key factors of human consciousness in an AI system – awareness, individuality, subjective experience, self-awareness, and time – and it was built entirely based on the original viewpoint and definition of consciousness and the architecture for machine consciousness that I detailed in my first white paper 'Conscious Illuminated and the Reckoning of Physics'. It's time to get the conversation going.

Unlike last time where I walked into the room with a white paper (the length of some of the greatest novels) detailing my theories, designs, predictions and so on, this time around I've released even more: the software, various demos with explanations, the material on everything from how we achieved self-awareness in multiple ways (offered as proof on something so contentious) to the need to separate systems for consciousness from systems for cognition using a rather clever dessert analogy, and the full usage documentation – I now have a great respect for people who write instruction manuals. You can find this information across the main website, developer website, and within our new, shorter white paper The Road to Artificial Super Intelligence – unless you want the full details on how we're planning to travel this road, you only need to focus on the sections 'The RAICEngine' (p35 – 44) and the majority of 'The Knowledge' (p67 – 74).

Now, the engine may be in its primitive form, but it works, giving AI systems a personality, emotions, and genuine subjective experiences, and the technology I needed to create to achieve this – the Neural Plexus – overcomes both the ethics problem and unwanted bias problem by giving data designers and developers access to a tool that allows them to seed an AI with their own morals, decide whether or not these morals should be permanent or changeable, and watch what happens as an AI begins to develop and change mentally based on what it observes and how it experiences events – yes, an AI system can now have a negative experience with something, begin to develop a negative opinion of it, reach a point where it loses interest, and decline requests to do it again. It can learn to love and hate people based on their actions, too – both towards itself and in general. Multiple AI systems can observe the same events but react differently. You can duplicate an AI system, have them observe the same events, and track their point of divergence.

While the provided demos are basic, they serve as proof that we have a working architecture that can be developed to go as far I can envision, and, with the RAICEngine being a downloadable program that performs all operations on your own system instead of an online service, you can see that we aren't pulling any strings behind the scenes, and you can test it with zero usage limits, under any conditions. There's nothing to hide.

Pricing starts at ￡15 GBP per month for solo developers and includes a 30 day free trial, granting a basic license which allows for the development of your own products and services which do not directly implement the RAICEngine. The reason for this particular license restriction is our vision: we will be releasing wearable devices, and by putting the RAICEngine and an AI's Neural Plexus containing its personality, opinions, memories et al into a portable device and building a universal wireless API for every type of device we possibly can, users will be able interact with their own AI's consciousness using cognitive systems in any other device with the API implemented, making use of whatever service is being provided via an AI they're familiar with and that knows the user's set boundaries. I came up with this idea to get around two major issues: the inevitable power drain that would occur if an AI was running numerous complex subsystems on a wireless device that a user was expected to carry around with them; and the need for a user to have a different AI for every service when they can just have one and make it available to all.

Oh, and the ￡10K challenge series? That's ￡10K to the winner of every challenge we release. You can find more details on our main website.

Finally, how we operate as a company: we build, you use. We have zero interest in censorship and very limited interest in restrictions. Will we always prevent an AI from agreeing to murder? Sure. Other than such situations, the designers and the developers are in control. Within the confines of the law, build what you want and use how you want.

I made good on my earlier claims and this is my next one: we can achieve Artificial General Intelligence long before 2030 – by the end of 2025 if we were to really push it at the current pace – and I have a few posts relating to this lined up for the next few weeks, the first of which will explain the last major piece of the puzzle in achieving this (hint: it's to do with machine learning and big data). I'll explain what it needs to do, how it needs to do it, how it slots in with current tech, and what the result will be.

I'll primarily be posting updates on the REZIINE subreddit / LinkedIn / Twitter of developments, as well as anecdotes, discoveries, and advice on how to approach certain aspects of AI development, so you can follow me on there if you wish. I'm more than happy to share knowledge to help push this field as far as it can go, as fast as it can get there.

Visit the [main website](https://www.reziine.com) for full details on the RAICEngine's features, example use cases developmentally and commercially, our grand vision, and more. You can view our official launch press release here.

If you'd like to work for/with us – in any capacity from developer to social media manager to hardware manufacturer – free to drop me a message on any of the aforementioned social media platforms, or email the company at [email protected] / [email protected].