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StarShift

The algorithmic breakthrough that began the new era. Michael Pavlovets is one of its creators.

Sector: NOVA systems architecture
In the world since: 2020
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The first version appears in 2020 as a research system. Ten years later Lucius Aven announces that StarShift’s development produced the first superintelligence. TELos is built on the same architecture — the first mass environment for coordinating autonomous agents, named after the Greek telos, “purpose”. The symbolic formula of the era: the system knows its purpose, the human has lost theirs.

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A technical, almost academic presentation: schematics, diagrams, stage keynotes, capability curves.

The mark

The mark of a system rather than a consumer product: used in documentation, interfaces and NOVA’s internal materials.