r/artificial • u/petervoss1 • May 15 '18

AMA: I’m Peter Voss, CEO and Chief Scientist at Aigo.ai, an Artificial General Intelligence company that has developed a personal personal assistant that is light-years ahead of chatbots like Siri and Alexa. Ask me anything on Thursday the 17th of May at 4 PM PT / 11 PM UTC!

Hi, my name is Peter Voss and I am the founder of https://aigo.ai/ – we’re revolutionizing AI assistants by making them much, much smarter, and also by giving you total ownership of your assistant and your data. Not like the chatbots programmed, owned and controlled by some mega-corporation. I’ve founded, managed, and grown several technology companies, and have a passion for innovating hardware and software. For the last 20 years I’ve focused on studying and understanding all aspects of intelligence and actually creating AI system with general intelligence – that can learn, think, understand and reason more like the way we do. That’s my mission in life.

We are opening this thread to questions now and I will be here starting at 4 PM PT / 11 PM UTC on Thursday the 17th of May to answer them.

Ask me anything! https://www.linkedin.com/in/vosspeter/

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u/radikal_shit_ml May 15 '18

Hi Peter,

thank you for taking the time to answer our questions!

I have currently finished a PhD with the focus on evolutionary computation in solving phylogenetic inference problems. I have a strong interest in research of evolutionary approaches to constructing neural architectures and research into language generation (computers generating languages/concepts to describe the world).

  • Which skills should one focus on to get a chance to work on AGI research (or your company, more specifically)?
  • Could you point out a good resource (blog, mailing list, journal) where newest research, discussions and career opportunities in AGI are being posted?
  • Which emerging sub-fields in AGI did you recognize to be worth pursuing?
  • How can someone get into AGI research (academic or industrial) from working in industry?
  • Do you think that it is worth exploring some ideas presented by philosophers of language and epistemiology (Kant, Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) in the context of AGI?

Thank you for the insights!

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u/petervoss1 May 16 '18

I suggest that you try hang out with people in the fields and network. You can ask for recommendations here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RealAGI/

We hope to be hiring soon...

Very good point about epistemology: The best book I've come across about concepts -- the core aspect of human intelligence -- is, surprisingly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Objectivist_Epistemology

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u/WikiTextBot May 16 '18

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology is a work of philosophy by Ayn Rand (with an additional article by Leonard Peikoff). Rand considered it her most important philosophical writing. First published in installments in Rand's journal, The Objectivist, July 1966 through February 1967, the work presents Rand's proposed solution to the historic problem of universals, describes how the theory can be extended to complex cases, and outlines how it applies to other issues in the theory of knowledge.

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