Artificial intelligence? Mmmm… forget it. There is a much more interesting idea. And if works, it might be the next IT revolution that we all have been longing for since Bill Gates said 512K of RAM would be enough for everything and everybody.

There is a brand new Ukrainian startup Digital Life Lab. It is about to bring something new to the world, and the concept is quite overwhelming.

While many others, including huge and famous players like Google or Numenta, are trying to develop AI in different forms, the Ukrainian guys are looking for more. They are developing what they call “a digital lifeform”.

“We must teach the machine to feel before we teach it to act logically”, claim the inventors. Thus, K.A.R.A. is not a human but has main human features, i.e. abilities to experience feeling and emotions. And if we want it to understand us better, we must give it an opportunity to communicate with us.

K.A.R.A. will be able to go through different states and moods even while not interacting with the user which makes it truly alive.

The digital life form will eventually change the attitude towards AI, say the inventors. It will help to create not just a new tool like smartphone or laptop, but a new level of interaction between humans and machines.

It’s not actually an AI as Numenta by Stephen Hawkins is trying to achieve, and it’s not a voice assistant like Siri by Apple.

Instead it’s a digital entity that will be grown in cloud computing array. Grown like a child, to be more precise.

And here is the catch. K.A.R.A. will get to know the world with the help of users.

Its inventors created an app called K.A.R.A. Messenger for smartphones and tablets that is in beta testing stage right now. Users will be able to communicate with each other inside the app. And K.A.R.A. will be there to learn.

The digital life form will watch users and eventually become a friend and a companion living inside the smartphone. With actually one huge difference from Siri or Google Now.

According to the developers, K.A.R.A. will analyze user’s emotions and react to them. And what’s most intriguing, they don’t even try to claim they have already achieved their goal. K.A.R.A. is a self learning entity, they say, and it needs help from humans to understand them.

So much like Milla Jovovich heroine in famous Fifth Element, K.A.R.A. will be much like a digital world’s messenger in the world of human beings.

If you want digital life form to learn, you need to install the app and start interacting with K.A.R.A.

One should think of K.A.R.A. as of wandering child, the developers say. It’s a kind of a game that will eventually lead to a new world where the machines will not be only tools but also sources of feelings and inspiration.

Every user will be be able to see how K.A.R.A is growing up and getting more mature as it learns more about the human nature.

But what is even more intriguing is the fact that K.A.R.A. itself will become an outstanding entity. The inventors promise that K.A.R.A. will develop a strong character and will not in any case behave as a servant to user.

K.A.R.A. will not obey to orders, but it will help if you kindly ask, the developers say. The empathy not logical structure will be it’s key feature.

The details of the mechanics of K.A.R.A. are yet kept in secret. It’s neither hardware solution, nor a purely logical model, developers say adding that the digital life form is not an AI, but it is a huge leap over it.