Bill Hibbard

Emeritus Senior Scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center

Bill Hibbard is a scientist who has researched visualization and machine intelligence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is principal author of the Vis5D, Cave5D and VisAD open source visualization systems. These systems were the result of the Visualization Project at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also author of the book Super-Intelligent Machines and articles on the subject of the Technological Singularity.

Dr. Hibbard participated in AGI-08: The First Conference on Artificial Intelligence by preparing a presentation on the subject of Adversarial Sequence Prediction, a key component of intelligence. This can be extended to define a game between intelligent agents. An analog of a result of Legg shows that this game is a computational resources arms race for agents with enormous resources. Software experiments provide evidence that this is also true for agents with more modest resources.

At the AGI-08 post-conference workshop he posited that machines significantly more intelligent than humans will require changes in legal and economic systems in order to preserve human values. He believes an open source design for artificial intelligence (AI) will help this process by discouraging corruption, by enabling many minds to search for errors, and by encouraging political cooperation. He presented on the potential role of the Singularity Institute as a proactive political organization, as opposed to what he sees as its current position as mute on the subject of politics.

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AGI-08: Adversarial Sequence Prediction

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AGI-08 workshop, Open Source AI

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AGI-08 workshop, Politics of AI