Artificial General Intelligence seeks to create a "machine" incorporating a host of human abilities including commonsense knowledge, reasoning, learning, planning, and social intelligence. It must be able to harness all those skills to solve general problems. And to qualify as true AGI, it must perform *better* than humans.

Peter Voss has been researching and developing AGI since the early 90's, and in 2001 founded Adaptive A.I. Inc., specifically to develop a commercially viable general-purpose AGI engine. In this talk given at the 2007 Singularity Summit, he looks at how AGI will be accomplished and describes the many benefits that will come when we achieve the goal of making machines with true AGI.

Reduced labor costs, accelerated research progress, and improved life overall for humans will be the result of putting thousands of super-thinkers to work on the world's problems. More controversially, Peter Voss tells us ways AGI will produce a more moral world, projecting for each of us cybernetic advisors, better policing, and even better leadership resulting from more rational life, all courtesy of AGI.