Transcript of Singularity Summit Talk

On September 9, 2007 Steve Omohundro gave a talk on “The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence” at the 2007 Singularity Summit in San Francisco. The video is available here: http://www.singinst.org/media/singularitysummit2007/stephenomohundro Thanks to Drew Reynolds for producing a transcript of the talk which is copied below along with photographs and the original slides: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/people-blog/?p=221 The Nature [...]

The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence

An analysis of the behavior of self-improving systems was presented at the Singularity Summit 2007. Here is a version of the paper revised 1/21/08: 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 [...]

The Singularity Summit 2007

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 [...]