Imagination Engines Inc.: "Summary - A radically new form of neural network based artificial intelligence has been conceived that in contrast to preceding forms of AI, builds itself and then enters into an intellectual bootstrapping process wherein it learns from its own mistakes and successes to create useful ideas and strategies. Not only is this technology capable of autonomously inventing and discovering new products, services, and procedures, as it has for numerous international corporations and government agencies, it has also devised several revolutionary neural network paradigms. For these reasons and more, AI visionaries and futurists, such as Dr. Dennis Bushnell, NASA Langley's chief scientist and visionary, have called this technology, known as the 'Creativity Machine,' AI's best bet at creating human to trans-human level intelligence in machines. ...This technology is produced and delivered exclusively by Imagination Engines, Incorporated as either customer tailored or mass produced products.

Details - Until recently, artificial neural networks could only recognize patterns or reconstruct learned memories using clues about the particular memory sought. In 1975, our founder, Dr. Stephen Thaler discovered a truly significant scientific principle: if the connection weights between neurons within an artificial neural network were transiently varied by just the right amount, the network would produce very plausible yet novel concepts and plans of action generalized from the neural network's learning. Subsequently, he incubated the idea of allowing another trained neural network to monitor the ideas and strategies streaming from such an internally disrupted network and to control that conceptual parade through various forms of feedback.