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EPISODE · Jun 11, 2026 · 1H 26M

INTERVIEW: The Man Who Named AGI Says We're Doing AI Wrong [ft. Peter Voss @ AIGO.ai]

from The BOOM ROOM by Arcanum Ventures · host Arcanum Ventures

Episode 36 of the BOOM ROOM is here with special guest Peter Voss of AIGO.ai.Peter Voss co-coined the term AGI in 2001. He has spent over 20 years building toward it. And his assessment of where the industry is today is blunt: virtually nobody working on AI is actually working on AGI, and the math makes that impossible to ignore.Your brain runs on 20 watts. The largest AI data centers consume 20 gigawatts. A child learns a new concept from a single example. LLMs need trillions of data points and a billion-dollar training run to get close. Peter argues this is not a temporary inefficiency that scale will solve. It is a fundamental architectural dead end.He joins Carmelo and Sasha on the BOOM ROOM to break down what real AGI looks like, what we need AGI for, why cognitive architecture is the path the big labs refuse to take, and what AIGO.ai has been quietly building for a decade.In this episode:- Why Peter believes LLMs are an off-ramp to AGI, not a path toward it- The three things that make human intelligence unique and why LLMs have none of them- What incremental real-time learning is and why back propagation makes it impossible for current models- Why only 5% of enterprise AI prototypes ever reach production- How AIGO's cognitive architecture works and why it can run on a single off-the-shelf computer- The alignment problem reframed: it is not a values issue, it is a competence issue- What AGI will actually mean for jobs, science, and personal agency- Founder advice from someone who has taken a company from garage to IPO#artificialintelligence #agi #ai #nextgenai #startups #ipo #startupsuccess #vcinsights #investorinsights #machinelearning #ainews #investing --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------📍Useful Links for Arcanum Ventures:👉 Arcanum Ventures X: x.com/ArcanumVentures👉 Arcanum Ventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcanum-ventures/👉 Arcanum Venture Website: https://www.arcanum.ventures/👉 Arcanum Telegram Community: https://t.me/Arcanumventures👉 Work With Us: https://www.arcanum.ventures/workwithusform/👉 Arcanum Media Center: https://www.arcanum.ventures/media-center/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------📍Useful Links for Peter Voss and AIGO.ai:👉 Peter Voss LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vosspeter👉 AIGO.ai Website: http://www.aigo.ai/👉 AIGO.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aigo-ai/👉 AIGO.ai X: https://x.com/Aigo_Community--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------📍Disclaimer:Arcanum Ventures is currently invested in and advising AIGO.ai. The context of this interview and the content is merely meant to provide discussion and insight to viewers interested in the #startups and #web3 industriesThis video was created to serve as an educational aid, and nothing in the video constitutes any financial advice. Do your own research and #invest wisely!

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