We may not sound like a Chatbot company, think like a Chatbot company or act like a Chatbot company — but that’s because we’ve never been interested in just making Chatbots.
We started Aigo because we want to make a difference.
Where did it all start
We coined the term “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) over 20 years ago and have since been steadily moving towards this massively beneficial goal for humanity.
Today, as technologies like ChatGPT highlight AI’s incredible potential, we are working towards making AGI an existential reality for everyone.
AGI is set to transform the world as profoundly as fire, electricity, and the internet.
To create a future where the quality of life for everyone in the society is radically improved as each one gets an increasingly intelligent and hyper-personalized assistant that significantly enhances productivity, engagement, problem-solving ability, and the overall well-being. In short, radical abundance for everyone in a very pragmatic way.
After taking his ERP software company to IPO and exiting, Peter spent about 5 years studying multiple aspects of intelligence. This included such fundamental philosophical and epistemological questions as ‘what is reality, and what is knowledge?’, ‘how do we obtain knowledge and certainty?’; exploring definitions of intelligence; working on a psychometric project to better understand how different dimensions of intelligence can be measured; studying differences between animal and human intelligence; and learning about cognitive development in children. Naturally, he also looked at software engineering (including knowledgebases and language development), and at the many subfields of artificial intelligence, such as formal logic, rule systems, neural nets, machine learning, and cognitive architectures.
This research and development culminated in a new theory and model of human-like cognition and a conclusion that data & compute intense approaches like Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) cannot solve cognition, therefore they can’t help us achieve AGI.
There is no “I” in AI without Cognition.
This resulted in developing our “Integrated Neuro-Symbolic Architecture (INSA)” that combines the accuracy and expressive power of symbolic systems together with the powerful non-brittle pattern matching ability of neural networks, deeply integrates all the cognitive mechanisms required by human-level/ human-like intelligence while consuming 20 watts of power that our brains need rather than the massive power requirement for training and operating LLMs. LLMs are not the path for AGI.
INSA is the most viable and direct path to achieve AGI.
On a mission to bring AGI to the world, to boost human flourishing.
After proving it commercially by replacing 1000s of call center agents, we are now extending the core Cognitive AI engine to achieve AGI through autonomous learning and reasoning with a detailed roadmap.
To further AGI development, Peter formed a pure development company called AGI Innovations Inc (AGi3) and for seven years, AGI3 has been in stealth mode with 12 people working full-time increasing the IQ of Aigo.
Peter launched company SmartAction – it was the first commercial successful product based on a (proto) AGI engine and first generation of Aigo.ai.
SmartAction’s focus was centered around commercial compliance, integration, security, scalability, and with very little time for further AGI development.
In 2001 Peter launched a 10-person R&D company called Adaptive A.I. Inc. (a2i2) to implement and experiment with Cognitive approach to AI.
Peter Voss coined the term Artificial General Intelligence or ‘AGI’ in 2002 with two other researchers.
We coined the term “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) over 20 years ago and have since been steadily moving towards this massively beneficial goal for humanity by leveraging our INSA – Integrated Neuro-Symbolic Architecture which facilitates Real-Time Incremental Autonomous Learning.
