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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.

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Peter Voss is an entrepreneur with a background in electronics, computer systems, business and technical software, as well as management. He has a keen interest in cognitive science and the inter-relationship between philosophy, psychology, ethics and computer science. Since the early 90′s he has been researching and developing artificial general intelligence, and in 2001 started Adaptive A.I. Inc., with the express goal of developing a commercially viable general-purpose AI engine.

An Extropian, he is actively involved in futurism, free-market ideas, and radical life-extension. In his view, artificial general intelligence (AGI) promises unprecedented advances not only in science and technology, but also in ethics and social systems. Peter Voss’s 2007 Singularity Summit talk explores some of these improvements, making a case for how increased intelligence leads to improved morality.

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SIAI Interview Series – Peter Voss

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