Dr. Stephen Omohundro comes to us with an impressive resume. Among other things, he was a scientist at Thinking Machines, architected the Sather programming language, and wrote the 3D graphics portion of Wolfram's Mathematica. Recently Steve has been working on systems that program themselves as a vehicle to machine intelligence. Along the way, he has been thinking deeply and originally about the consequences of machines that are self-aware and self-improving. He'll talk about the psychology of these systems, how to prevent machine psychopaths, and how to create a healthy AI ecology in which human values and wisdom flourish. This promises to be a thought-provoking and exciting discussion.
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