Future Blogger recently interviewed Steve Omohundro about artificial intelligence. A summary of the interview is available here:
http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/22
and the full transcript is here:
http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/21
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This paper is an intuitive presentation of the argument that advanced artificial intelligences will exhibit specific universal drives. It was published in the proceedings of the AGI-08 conference by IOS press: AGI-08 Workshop on the Sociocultural, Ethical and Futurological Implications of Artificial Intelligence . The PDF file for the paper (revised 1/25/08) is:
Stephen M. [...]
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On November 4, 2007 Steve Omohundro led a discussion at the Foresight Vision Weekend in which participants were asked to design the year 2030, assuming the existence of both self-improving artificial intelligence and productive nanotechnology. Great thanks to Drew Reynolds who filmed the talk, edited the video, and produced a transcript with the original slides. [...]
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On October 24, 2007 Steve Omohundro gave the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium on “Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Computing”. Great thanks to Drew Reynolds who filmed the talk, edited the video, and produced a transcript with the original slides. The video is available here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=635444280686112089&hl=en
The transcript and slides are available on the Accelerating [...]
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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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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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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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The rational perspective on artificial intelligence leads to many important but sometimes unintuitive consequences. Details are described in the paper:
Stephen M. Omohundro, “The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence”
but it seems worthwhile to flesh out some of the important ideas in separate blog posts.
Our primary focus is on systems which improve themselves. Many of the consequences [...]
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