Interview on Future Blogger

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

Paper on The Basic AI Drives

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. [...]

Foresight Vision Talk: Self-Improving AI and Designing 2030

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. [...]

Stanford Computer Systems Colloquium Talk: Self-Improving AI and the Future of Computing

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 [...]

Transcript of Singularity Summit Talk

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 [...]

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 [...]