OUNG builds the missing layer — capturing human intent through the body, not just through language.
"Every AI alignment method today operates through language. But human values are guided by physiological responses that precede conscious thought. We are aligned to what humans say — not to what they feel."
RLHF uses human preference labels. Constitutional AI uses textual principles. DPO uses pairwise comparisons. All operate in a single modality: language. Decades of neuroscience — from Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis to the Iowa Gambling Task — demonstrate that value-laden decisions are substantially guided by pre-conscious bodily responses. Current AI captures what humans can articulate about their values. OUNG exists to capture what they cannot.
The OVIS (Omni-Visual Intent System) cognitive architecture formalizes human intent as a measurable divergence from habitual behavior. By integrating real-time physiological signals — heart rate variability, skin conductance, gaze — via Biometric Cross-Attention into a Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA), OVIS captures what language-based alignment cannot: the embodied, pre-conscious evaluative responses that guide human decisions before words form.
Three Layers of Embodied Intelligence
A cognitive system that grounds AI in physical law and human physiology. OVIS moves alignment from linguistic surface to embodied depth.
Active intent formalized as a non-conservative force within a latent state space. The Intent Density metric (Dc) quantifies the work required to deviate from habitual behavior — measuring not what a user does, but what it costs them to choose.
Biometric Cross-Attention modulates environmental representations with the observer's physiological state. The body becomes the query — heart rate and skin conductance shape how the AI perceives the world through the human who experiences it.
Where RLHF captures stated preferences and Constitutional AI captures written principles, OVIS captures revealed preferences — the somatic signals that guide decisions before conscious reasoning. A new data channel for value alignment.
OV1 is a handheld consumer device — not a laboratory instrument — that captures heart rate variability, skin conductance, and gaze during natural interaction. Designed for real-world deployment at scale: every user interaction generates the embodied data that trains aligned AI. Controlled experiments validate the science. Consumer deployment scales it.