In a podcast, Steve Omohundro, president of Self-Aware Systems, says he is developing AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves.

He gave an example of Microsoft Windows crashing–the Windows system doesn’t know it crashed or why it crashed and a human engineer has to fix it. A self-aware system would be able to fix its own code and learn from it. It turns out that machines will be far better than humans at writing software.

He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9.