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Artificial Intelligence
Working across disciplines to deliver on AI’s promise
We’ve engaged in AI research for more than 50 years, creating and delivering world-changing advances like the first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason, commercial-quality speech recognition, and the Siri virtual personal assistant.
Today, AI technology — and the creation of new AI technology — are core to the research of many groups across SRI. Our researchers collaborate to build systems that sense, model, and learn to create ever more capable applications. Our approach is human-centered, emphasizing system transparency and explainability to address the critical issues of predictability and reliability of AI-based systems. Contact us to learn more.
Innovating in
“We work across disciplines and in close collaboration with our government and commercial customers to create new technologies, while strengthening the guardrails, so we can all truly benefit from AI’s extraordinary promise.”
Real-world impact
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PARC Forum: Developing AI in the service of people
Award-winning journalist Karen Hao joined SRI AI experts for an engaging conversation about the impacts of AI around the world.
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SRI software emulates the human brain to empower AI at the edge
The emerging field of edge computing could rein in AI’s energy splurge. The SRI NeuroEdge framework aims to further increase edge computing’s efficiency and responsiveness.
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Robot teams that talk to humans
SRI scientists created a new AI-based approach to robotics that enables mobile robots to effectively communicate with each other — and with their human operators.
Core AI technologies and applications
Bioinformatics databases
BioCyc database collection
A comprehensive website for sharing fundamental information about biochemical pathways and genomes with researchers around the world
EcoCyc: encyclopedia of E. coli genes and metabolism
A bioinformatics database that describes the genome, metabolic network, and regulatory network of Escherichia coli
Recent publications
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ToMCAT: Theory-of-Mind for Cooperative Agents in Teams via Multiagent Diffusion Policies
We introduce ToMCAT, a framework that integrates Theory-of-Mind (ToM) reasoning with a multiagent diffusion model to generate team-aware plans conditioned on agents’ goals and inferred teammate characteristics. Experiments in a simulated domain demonstrate that agents with more ToM capabilities outperform ones without ToM and that ToMCAT’s dynamic replanning mechanism significantly improves resource efficiency while maintaining…
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Collaborative Metabolic Curation of an Emerging Model Marine Bacterium, Alteromonas macleodii ATCC 27126
A community curation workshop by researchers and students resulted in a new manually-curated genome and metabolic pathway database in BioCyc for the model marine bacterium Alteromonas macleodii ATCC 27126. The curation of this bacterium from peer-review literature illustrates the current knowledge of the organism and highlights gaps in knowledge that serve as starting points for…
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The Comparative Genome Dashboard
The Comparative Genome Dashboard is a web-based software tool for interactive exploration of the similarities and differences in gene functions between organisms.