Posted on October 29, 2007 by omohundro
Thanks to the efforts of Drew Reynolds, a transcript of Steve Omohundro’s September 8, 2007 Singularity Summit talk “The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence” along with photographs and the original slides is now available:
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=221
The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence
I would like to talk about the “nature of self-improving artificial intelligence” and in this I mean [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2007 by omohundro
Much of our analysis of artificial and natural intelligence is based on the economic concept of rational behavior. This notion was introduced by von Neumann and Morgenstern in their landmark 1944 book “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior”. They only dealt with situations with objective probabilities, but their approach was later extended to subjective [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2007 by omohundro
An analysis of the likely behavior of self-improving systems was presented at the Singularity Summit 2007. The PDF file for the paper (revised 1/21/08) is:
Stephen M. Omohundro, “The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence”
Abstract: Self-improving systems are a promising new approach to developing artificial intelligence. But will their behavior be predictable? Can we be sure [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2007 by omohundro
Steve Omohundro is on the Advisory Board of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence which is doing important work on the social consequences of artificial intelligence. On September 8-9, 2007 he spoke at their conference on AI and the Future of Humanity at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. About 1000 people attended, including [...]
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