The pursuit of AI that feels human: From the roots of our research to the question of coexistence.

Alternative AI is a new AI approach aimed at dealing with internal models—how a person perceives things and which values they hold or thoughts they have lead to the decisions they make.

While typical conversational AI learns conversational tendencies and expression patterns to respond appropriately, alternative AIs go even further by focusing on the background behind a person's thoughts to consider, "How would this person think?"

This enables alternative AIs to evolve into an entity that co-creates person-like judgments by providing advice and organizing information while respecting the values that person holds dear. For example, even when physically distant or otherwise occupied with another commitment, an alterntive AI that shares that person's values and thinking can provide support for a situation. Alternative AI is a technology pioneering a future relationship between humans and AI where the two entities can collaborate more naturally.