Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence

October 24, 2007 lecture by Steve Omohundro for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Steve presents fundamental principles that underlie the operation of "self-improving systems," i.e., computer software and hardware that improve themselves by learning from their own operations.

EE 380 | Computer Systems Colloquium:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/

Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory:
http://csl.stanford.edu/

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http://scpd.stanford.edu/

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[suitzoot]

@mkotisrael Right. I also disagree with him strenuously. He has confused his own inability to make sense of Omohundo's excellent points for them not making sense generally.

What I would really like to know is what enabled this man to develop such a high level of ignorance combined with even greater arrogance.

It's like me walking into a rocket science conference and saying "Look, you've just put a whole bunch of numbers together. It doesn't make sense."

the appropriate response: fuck off noob

[wanabee100]

...in the last 10 min of the video they talks about computer safety....well ...you can do some very low tec things to help computer safety.....unplug the internet connection when you don´t use the internet...and unplug the 110 volt connection when you don´t use the computer(i know that you software people hate and look down on any kind physical labor - but unplug anyway).....go back to fresh software as often as possible....and change the hard disk often(learn to change the hard disk yourself)..

[listen2earth]

It does not take intelligence to develop greater intelligence!!! It takes Heart!! Maybe We should develop Heart first!!! By jesus Land Tidd

[rsoto326]

I think its likely that a self-improving artificial intelligence would find human rationality and empathy detrimental to progression

[electrodacus]

@mkotisrael I think he was polite (open discussion) and he made a lot of sense.

The idea is that you can not program AI to respect such narrow guidelines.

When AI will take over probably not far in to the future before 2045 we will be obsolete much more so than monkeys are to us.

There are also no way to stop this evolution at this moment as far as I can imagine.

[grunder20]

This made me think very hard. Great video!

[intelX1000]

@pkemr4 cool. i wish i could find out where that ai is located. :) mind sharing the site? ps. its emoticons.

[MaltusIronSword]

I liked it.