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Autopotent Entities

Autopotent Entities is a term coined by Nick Bostrom to denote an entity, or conscious awareness, either naturally occurring, or artificial intelligence in nature which is both totally self-aware, and possesses the ability to modify itself. Most humans automatically fall into this category.

A powerful artificial autopotent entity, had better be programmed to be a friendly AI, or else the consequences for the human race may well be grim.

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The study of multi-agent systems or MAS focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as software programs or robots.





 

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(07/03/2010)
It is a laser, but not as we know it. For a start, you need a microscope to see it. Gleaming eerily green, it is a single spherical particle just a few tens of nanometres across.

Tiny it might be, but its creators have big pl...


(22/04/2012)
6th June 2012 - 7th June 2012
Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC, USA

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-hosting the fifth annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance thro...


(22/09/2008)
Utah will soon be rolling out a statewide system for disease reporting that promises to automate and make the process more transparent. The system, called TriSano?, is an open source project licensed under the Affero GPL. According to TriSa...


(08/08/2010)
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time ? and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of t...


(06/11/2009)
Human suspicion of realistic robots and avatars may have earlier origins than previously thought. Experiments with macaque monkeys show they too are suspicious of replicas that fall short of the real thing. The research suggests a deep-seat...