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		<title>Steve Omohundro talk on &#8220;Learning and Recognition by Model Merging&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2012/04/24/steve-omohundro-talk-on-learning-and-recognition-by-model-merging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A talk given by Steve Omohundro on &#8220;Learning and Recognition by Model Merging&#8221; on 11/20/1992 at the Sante Fe Institute, Sante Fe, New Mexico. It describes the very general technique of &#8220;model merging&#8221; and applies it to a variety of learning and recognition tasks including visual learning and recognition and grammar learning. It also contains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=2139&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Omohundro talk on &#8220;Efficient Algorithms with Neural Network Behavior&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A talk given by Steve Omohundro on &#8220;Efficient Algorithms with Neural Network Behavior&#8221; on 8/19/1987 at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos, New Mexico. It describes a class of techniques for dramatically speeding up the performance of a wide variety of neural network and machine learning algorithms. Papers about these techniques and more advanced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=2137&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melbourne Panel after Transcendent Man Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugo de Garis, Ben Goertzel, and Steve Omohundro discuss the &#8220;Transcendent Man&#8221; film and answer questions from the audience in the premiere Australian showing at the Nova Cinema. Filmed and edited by Adam Ford.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=2134&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melbourne Discussion on the Perils of Prediction</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2012/04/24/melbourne-discussion-on-the-perils-of-prediction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Krauss, Ben Goertzel, and Steve Omohundro discuss &#8220;The Perils of Prediction&#8221; on a panel at the Singularity Summit Australia 2011 in Melbourne, Australia. Filmed by Sue Kim and edited by Adam Ford.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=2130&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rational Artificial Intelligence for the Greater Good</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2012/03/30/rational-artificial-intelligence-for-the-greater-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper will be in the upcoming Springer volume: “The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment”. Here is a pdf of the current version: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/rational_ai_greater_good.pdf Abstract: Today&#8217;s technology is mostly preprogrammed but the next generation will make many decisions autonomously. This shift is likely to impact every aspect of our lives and will create many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=2004&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Computing: Meaning and Values</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2012/01/29/the-future-of-computing-meaning-and-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article will appear in the Australian magazine &#8220;Issues&#8221;: The Future of Computing: Meaning and Values Steve Omohundro, Ph.D. Self-Aware Systems, President Technology is rapidly advancing! Moore&#8217;s law says that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. It has held since it was proposed in 1965 and extended back to 1900 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=1685&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Ford Interviews: Steve Omohundro</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/10/07/adam-ford-interviews-steve-omohundro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a great trip to Melbourne, Australia to speak at the Singularity Summit and at Monash University. Thanks to Kevin Korb for hosting me and to Adam Ford for organizing the visit. Adam interviewed me at various interesting locations around Melbourne: 8/24/2011 Interview about the basic AI drives, compassionate intelligence, and Sputnik moments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=893&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is intelligence?</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/09/22/what-is-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a large literature on human intelligence. John Carroll&#8217;s classic &#8220;Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies&#8221; identifies 69 distinct narrow abilities but finds that 55% of the variance in mental tests is due to a common &#8220;general intelligence&#8221; factor &#8220;g&#8221;. The leading AI textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, considers 8 different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=789&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singularity Summit Australia Talk: The Emerging Global Mind, Cooperation, and Compassion</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/08/08/singularity-summit-australia-talk-the-emerging-global-mind-cooperation-and-compassion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pdf file with the slides is here: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/emerging-global-mind.pdf The Emerging Global Mind, Cooperation, and Compassion Steve Omohundro, Ph.D. President, Omai Systems The internet is creating a kind of &#8220;global mind&#8221;. For example, Wikipedia radically changes how people discover and learn new information and they in turn shape Wikipedia. In the blogosphere, ideas propagate rapidly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=601&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talk at Monash University, Australia: Rationally-Shaped Minds: A Framework for Analyzing Self-Improving AI</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/07/29/talk-at-monash-university-australia-rationally-shaped-minds-a-framework-for-analyzing-self-improving-ai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omohundro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a video of the talk (thanks to Adam Ford for filming and editing it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDZ63QKXdQ Here are the slides: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/rationally-shaped-minds.pdf Rationally-Shaped Minds: A Framework for Analyzing Self-Improving AI Steve Omohundro, Ph.D. President, Omai Systems Many believe we are on the verge of creating truly artificially intelligent systems and that these systems will be central [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=573&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singularity Summit Australia Talk: Minds Making Minds: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/07/29/singularity-summit-australia-talk-minds-making-minds-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://summit2011.singinst.org.au/2011/07/abstract-steve-omohundro-minds-making-minds-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-humanity/ A pdf file with the slides is here: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/minds-making-minds.pdf Minds Making Minds: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity Steve Omohundro, Ph.D. President, Omai Systems We are at a remarkable moment in human history. Many believe that we are on the verge of major advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and robotics. Together, these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=570&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next Big Future Interview: Steve Omohundro and the future of superintelligence</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/07/29/next-big-future-interview-steve-omohundro-and-the-future-of-superintelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/steve-omohundro-and-future-of.html July 07, 2011 Steve Omohundro and the future of superintelligence Steve Omohundro is a computer scientist who has spent decades designing and writing artificial intelligence software. He now heads a startup corporation, Omai Systems, which will license intellectual property related to AI. In an interview with Sander Olson, Omohundro discuss Apollo style AGI programs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=567&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AGI-11talk: Design Principles for a Safe and Beneficial AGI Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/07/29/agi-11talk-design-principles-for-a-safe-and-beneficial-agi-infrastructure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://agi-conf.org/2011/abstract-stephen-omohundro/ Here are the slides from the talk: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/design-principles-for-safe-agi.pdf Design Principles for a Safe and Beneficial AGI Infrastructure Steve Omohundro, Ph.D., Omai Systems Abstract: Many believe we are on the verge of creating true AGIs and that these systems will be central to the future functioning of human society. These systems are likely to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=561&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humanity+ interview: Steve Omohundro on the Global Brain, Existential Risks and the Future of AGI</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2011/07/29/humanity-interview-steve-omohundro-on-the-global-brain-existential-risks-and-the-future-of-agi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/04/13/steve-omohundro-on-the-global-brain-existential-risks-and-the-future-of-agi/ Steve Omohundro on the Global Brain, Existential Risks and the Future of AGI By: Steve Omohundro and Ben Goertzel Published: April 13, 2011 The future of humanity involves a complex combination of technological, psychological and social factors – and one of the difficulties we face in comprehending and crafting this future, is that not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=557&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity, Virtualization, and the Future of Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2010/09/17/complexity-virtualization-and-the-future-of-cooperation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 27, 2010, Steve Omohundro gave a talk at Halcyon Molecular on &#8220;Complexity, Virtualization, and the Future of Cooperation&#8221;. Here&#8217;s a pdf file of the slides: http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/complexity-virtualization-and-the-future-of-cooperation.pdf Here&#8217;s the abstract: We are on the verge of fundamental breakthroughs in biology, neuroscience, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. Will these breakthroughs lead to greater harmony and cooperation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=191&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of the Global Brain</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/12/24/the-wisdom-of-the-global-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, December 5, 2009, Steve Omohundro spoke at the Humanity+ Summit in Irvine, CA on &#8220;The Wisdom of the Global Brain&#8221;.  The talk explored the idea that humanity is interconnecting itself into a kind of &#8220;global brain&#8221;. It discussed analogies with bacterial colonies, immune systems, multicellular animals, ecosystems, hives, corporations, and economies. 9 universal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=175&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Science and Technology of Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/03/14/talk-on-science-and-technology-for-a-cooperative-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=127&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/03/14/talk-on-evolution-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 19, 2009, Steve Omohundro gave a talk at City College of San Francisco on &#8220;Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Humanity&#8221;. Thanks to Mathew Bailey for organizing the event and to the CCSF philosophy club for filming the talk. It&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=124&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Cooperative Future</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/02/23/talk-on-creating-a-cooperative-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 22, 2009 Steve Omohundro gave a talk at the Bay Area Artificial Intellgience Group on &#8220;Creating a Cooperative Future&#8221;. A PDF file with the slides is available here: Steve Omohundro &#8220;Creating a Cooperative Future&#8221; Thanks to Drew Reynolds for videotaping the talk. The edited video and transcript will be posted here when they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=106&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/02/18/video-of-convergence-08-ai-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=101&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SIAI Interview with Steve Omohundro</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/02/18/siai-interview-with-steve-omohundro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=87&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/02/18/talk-on-co-opetition-in-economics-biology-and-ai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 27, 2009 Steve Omohundro gave a talk to the Silicon Valley Grey Thumb on &#8220;Co-opetition in Economics, Biology, and AI&#8221;. 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&#38;hl=en Here is the abstract: Co-opetition in Biology, Economics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=83&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AI and the Future of Human Morality</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/02/18/talk-on-ai-and-the-future-of-human-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 19, 2008 Steve Omohundro gave a talk at the meeting of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+) on &#8220;AI and the Future of Human Morality&#8221;. 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&#38;hl=en The edited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=80&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AGI-08 Talk: The Basic AI Drives</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2009/02/18/agi-08-talk-the-basic-ai-drives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2008/02/27/interview-on-future-blogger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omohundro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=41&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Basic AI Drives</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/11/30/paper-on-the-basic-ai-drives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper aims to present the argument that advanced artificial intelligences will exhibit specific universal drives in as direct a way as possible. It was published in the Proceedings of the First AGI Conference, Volume 171, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, edited by P. Wang, B. Goertzel, and S. Franklin, February 2008, IOS Press. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=31&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foresight Vision Talk: Self-Improving AI and Designing 2030</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/11/30/foresight-vision-talk-self-improving-ai-and-designing-2030/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omohundro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=30&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Computer Systems Colloquium Talk: Self-Improving AI and the Future of Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 24, 2007 Steve Omohundro gave the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium on &#8220;Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Computing&#8221;. 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&#38;hl=en The transcript and slides are available on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=29&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transcript of Singularity Summit Talk</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/10/29/transcript-of-singularity-summit-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/10/05/paper-on-the-nature-of-self-improving-artificial-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, &#8220;The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence&#8221; Abstract: Self-improving systems are a promising new approach to developing artificial intelligence. But will their behavior be predictable? Can we be sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=20&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Singularity Summit 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=selfawaresystems.com&amp;blog=1732588&amp;post=18&amp;subd=selfawaresystems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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