We are working on our own ideas of Reactive Neural Networks (RxNN) and Event-Driven AI, advancing from language models to AGI awareness models.
Reactive Neural Networks (RxNN) are memory-augmented neural networks with higher levels of recurrence (inter-sequence vs. intra-sequence in RNNs), focused on processing single interactions with access to previous interactions via memory layers. We call this event-driven real-time processing to distinguish it from classical data-driven processing of the full conversation history in each interaction. This difference is crucial in case of AGI and awareness - the key feature of humans awareness, is that we remember what we were doing 10 mins ago, without recalling the whole-day history - we are working in real-time - just like event-driven Reactive Neural Networks.
In Event-Driven AI models are processing the data in reaction to environment or internal events, and are emitting other response events as a result. Processing of input and output events by the model is called the interaction. Event or an interaction could occur in any point in continous time. Models have to be stateful and remember the data between the interactions.
Strong Reactive Neural Networks like Reactor could emit and listen to its internal events, while the Weak Reactive Neural Networks are working only on environment events.
Our primary architecture - Reactor - is planned as the first awareness AGI model, that's modelling awareness as an Infinite Chain-of-Thoughts, connected to Short-Term and Long-Term Memory (Attention-based Memory System) and Receptors/Effectors systems for real-time reactive processing. It will be able to constantly and autonomously learn from interactions in Continouos Live Learning process.
While the Reactor is the main goal, it's extremely hard to achieve, as it's definitely the most advanced neural network ensemble ever.
That's why we designed simplified architectures, for incremental transformation from language/reasoning models to awareness model:
We are currently working on Reactive Transformer Proof-of-Concept - RxT-Alpha, especially on the new reinforcement learning stage - Memory Reinforcement Learning, that's required for our reactive models, between the Supervised Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback for reactive models (RxRLHF). The research is open, we are publishing the results of all separate steps, just after finishing them.
The Proof-of-Concept includes 3 small scale models based on Reactive Transformer architecture:
All the models have theoretically infinite context, limited only for single interaction (message + response), but in practice it's limited by short-term memory capacity (it will be improved in Preactor). Limits are:
We are working on complete Reactive Neural Networks development framework - RxNN github