In this episode of Data Driven, Frank and Andy speak with Peter Voss about Artificial General Intelligence, Personalizing Personal Assistants, and Motorcycles.
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Guest Bio
Peter Voss is the world’s foremost authority in Artificial General Intelligence.
His company Aigo (https://www.aigo.ai/) has created the world’s first intelligent cognitive assistant.
Aigo was funded with a personal investment of $10 million dollars. They currently manage millions of personalized customer service inquiries for household name-brands
Notable Quotes
Aigo is Peter’s company. BAILeY’s Introduction (00:00)
The east coast has been blanketed with snow. (01:30)
The Expanse books (03:00)
Coding for curiosity? – Frank (11:50)
“Models don’t dynamically learn.” – Peter (13:00)
Three waves: Logic programming, Deep learning / neural networks, cognitive architecture / intelligence (14:00)
Intelligence v. sentience? – Frank (15:50)
What about bots being “led astray?” – Andy (18:30)
On programming morality… (21:30)
AI Safety is a better description – Peter (22:30)
Asimov’s three laws of robotics – Frank (23:15)
On delimmas – Peter (24:15)
“Morality should be about human flourishing.” – Peter (25:15)
Are we using digital means to do something analog? – Andy (27:55)
Peter is trained as an electronics engineer. (28:05)
“Context is always super-important.” – Peter (28:30)
“You need a feedback system.” – Peter (30:00)
AIGO is Peter’s company. (31:00)
The three meanings of personal. (34:00)
“Exo-cortex” (33:50)
On context switches (38:30)
Did you find AI or did AI find you? (41:00)
“I took five years off to study…” – Peter (43:00)
What’s your favorite part of your current gig? (44:10)
When I’m not working, I enjoy ___. (45:00)
I think the coolest thing in technology today is ___. (45:30)
I look forward to the day when I can use technology to ___. (46:25)
Something interesting or different about yourself (47:00)
Where can people learn more about Peter? (49:00)
Book reading / listening recommendations? (49:00)
Peter’s articles on Medium (52:00)
Get a free audio book and support DataDriven – visit thedatadrivenbook.com! (00:00)
