5Mar/094
Peter Voss: Towards Real AI
Peter Voss started his career as an entrepreneur, inventor, engineer and scientist at age 16. After a few years of experience in electronics engineering, at age 25 he started a company to provide advanced custom software development and information-technology services. Seven years later the company employed several hundred people and was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Having recently taken his artificial intelligence company Adaptive A.I. Inc. (a2i2) out of stealth mode, he presented at the BIL unconference in Long Beach, California in February on the prospects of creating artificial general intelligence, or “Real AI,†in less than a decade.
Read a transcript of his BIL talk at Future Current.
March 5th, 2009 - 17:33
nice!
March 5th, 2009 - 22:13
I was fairly unimpressed- it seemed like his talk lacked any real substance.
March 6th, 2009 - 09:08
Since reading the transcript, I have become significantly more convinced that a2i2 is to be taken seriously. Voss seems to understand the challenges of AGI development.
March 6th, 2009 - 15:52
Roko: his chapter in Ben’s AGI book written several years ago made about the same general impression (better actually, since it was better prepared), and this particular talk doesn’t add any substance (beside “I expect [my] AGI in 8 years”). His view on the potential of AGI doesn’t sound realistic (never did).