Building AI-Enabled Products

In today's world successful products are expected to be 'AI-enabled'. Whether you developing a new product or need to enhance an old product, we can help!

Current customers can get access to higher level AI driven insight into the solutions your products provide via an AI layer provided by NEWFOL from IBUKI. Furthernore, once developed, these NEWFOL modules can be re-used when adding functionality to an existing product or developing a new one.

NEWFOL is a turnkey methodology and framework for adding a layer of AI software to a product that can understand (in real time) how its being used and can help modify its behavior to align with the expectations of your customer.

NEWFOL is a mature technowlogy that has been used by IBUKI over the last fourty years to built many AI-enhanced products for customers and now we have engineered NEWFOL so you can use it in your products.

What is AI

IBUKI's vision is that AI is about using conceptual modeling and reasoning to solve cognitive problems. This is more than using mathmatical models to solve physical problems (like probabalistic simulations of the environmental consequences of nuclear power plant failure) or computers doing organization tasks (like managing corporate accounting or sales force automation).

Cognitive processes include not only traditional activities like planning and decision-making but building systems that can understand the needs and intensions of their users, can learn useful things not built in by their developers, can explain how they work and reflect on and justify their actions,

NEWFOL uses symbolic AI, a strategy that (like neural nets) was actively discussed 50 year ago when the most powerful computers were mere shadows of today's smartphones. What generative AI and LLMs have taught us is that massively scaling old algorithms (in their case neural nets (1969) and tenor algebra (1880)) using the latest hardware can make a qualitive difference in functionality.

A second take away from current LLM usage is that without a grounding in hard facts, the results produced by LLMs are hard to validate and need to be taken with a grain of salt—especially in life-critical applications.

This suggests another look at symbolic AI. NEWFOL interprets logic computationally rather than set theoretically and offers a form of symbolic AI that uses the analysis of logicians about how thinking works and at the same time handles some of the difficulties inherent in generative AI.

NEWFOL

NEWFOL is rich development environment for adding cognitive capabiities and AI to products using symbolic AI. It includes: tools for developing symbolic AI models and connecting them to both new and existing product code; and linkable runtime libraries and network accessable APIs for deployment.

NEWFOL focuses on modeling how a product can think about itself and reliably use knowledge of the world and logic (and possibly LLMs) to solve problems.

IBUKI's full range of products include: NEWFOL with its associated runtimes; prebuilt NEWFOL models covering both 'everyday/common ground' knowledge and specialized subject knowledge; and many useful subsystems for building AI applications.