AUSTIN, Texas — An Austin entrepreneur is making waves in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by setting his sights on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). AGI is a type of AI that aims to create machines with human-like learning and reasoning abilities.
“In 2002, together with two other people, I coined the term Artificial General Intelligence.” Founder and CEO of Aigo.ai said.
Voss says that was always the original goal of AI to build thinking machines.
“So, for example, you can have an AGI that you will tell it to, to become a PhD level cancer researcher and it will hit the books, and it will learn to become a PhD level cancer researcher,” Voss said. “But now the beauty is you can make a million copies of that, and you’ll have a million PhD cancer researchers chipping away at this problem.”
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Voss believes that AGI is the future of AI and that the current narrow AI, which excels at specific tasks, has limitations. Voss’s company, Aigo.ai, is developing an AGI program that can learn and adapt without the need for massive amounts of data, unlike current AI systems that require tremendous computational power and energy.
“There’s really a huge, huge problem with the current approach of AI, and that is that they need massive amounts of data to train,” Voss said. “They cannot learn incrementally, like you know when we’re having a conversation. We are learning from each other. The current technology can’t learn about its life. It has to be trained.”
Voss believes his program can achieve the language and reasoning abilities of a three-year-old in just a few months. Within two years, he predicts his program will reach the learning level of a 10-year-old and then accelerate rapidly.
Austin, with its thriving tech scene, is seen by Voss as the perfect environment to foster AGI development. He says with this ecosystem Austin could become a hub for this revolutionary technology.
