On Saturday, December 5, 2009, Steve Omohundro spoke at the Humanity+ Summit in Irvine, CA on “The Wisdom of the Global Brain”. The talk explored the idea that humanity is interconnecting itself into a kind of “global brain”. It discussed analogies with bacterial colonies, immune systems, multicellular animals, ecosystems, hives, corporations, and economies. 9 universal [...]
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On Friday, May 22, 2009, Steve Omohundro spoke at the Bay Area Future Salon at SAP in Palo Alto on: The Science and Technology of Cooperation Here’s a pdf file of the slides: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/science_technology_cooperation.pdf A new science of cooperation is arising out of recent research in biology and economics. Biology once focused on competitive concepts [...]
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On March 19, 2009, Steve Omohundro gave a talk at City College of San Francisco on “Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Humanity”. Thanks to Mathew Bailey for organizing the event and to the CCSF philosophy club for filming the talk. It’s available on YouTube in 7 parts: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK3AsBt3Pcs Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEmk7cM142k [...]
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On February 22, 2009 Steve Omohundro gave a talk at the Bay Area Artificial Intellgience Group on “Creating a Cooperative Future”. A PDF file with the slides is available here: Steve Omohundro “Creating a Cooperative Future” Thanks to Drew Reynolds for videotaping the talk. The edited video and transcript will be posted here when they [...]
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On November 15th and 16th, 2008, the Convergence 08 unconference took place in Mountain View, California to discuss nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive technology, and information technology. Steve Omohundro was on the Artificial Intelligence Panel with Peter Norvig, Ben Goertzel, and Barney Pell: http://www.vimeo.com/3162797
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In October 2007, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence interviewed Steve Omohundro on a variety of topics related to self-improving artificial intelligence, its social implications, and the process by which humanity will choose its future. The interview is 25 minutes long and provides a summary of some of the important issues surrounding these topics: http://www.singinst.org/media/interviews/steveomohundro
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On January 27, 2009 Steve Omohundro gave a talk to the Silicon Valley Grey Thumb on “Co-opetition in Economics, Biology, and AI”. The slides from the talk are available here: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/coopetition-in-biology-economics-and-ai.pdf Thanks to Allan Lundell who filmed and edited the talk. The video is available here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4144612001121844575&hl=en Here is the abstract: Co-opetition in Biology, Economics, [...]
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On March 19, 2008 Steve Omohundro gave a talk at the meeting of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+) on “AI and the Future of Human Morality”. 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=1286459692350772178&hl=en The edited [...]
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On March 3, 2008 Steve Omohundro gave a talk at the First Conference on Artificial Intelligence at the University of Memphis on “The Basic AI Drives”. The paper on which it is based is here: http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/11/30/paper-on-the-basic-ai-drives/ Great thanks to Drew Reynolds who filmed the talk, edited the video, and produced a transcript with the original [...]
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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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