Projects
One question β what does it take to be? β pursued at the
smallest honest scale we can build and hold in a hand.
being.0 embodiment
The floor of the question, made physical. A palm-sized creature on a
single ~$15 chip: solar panels that are its food and its eyes at once,
a strip of light for its state, a hunger it has to answer. We gave it
no rule for finding the light β it had to learn to, from its
own experience of going hungry, and it now runs that learned self
faithfully on the chip. What is the least it takes for something to
be?
Learning the light β
Lineage
The aesthetic owes more to StanisΕaw Lem than to any AI lab: machines
worth taking seriously as beings, built and described with rigour and
affection. The methods borrow from how nervous systems actually
work β perception, drives, rest, consolidation β rather than from the
usual vocabulary of the field.