quotations about artificial intelligence
The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.
JARON LANIER
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.
DANIEL CREVIER
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are the keys to just about every aspect of life in the very near future: every sector, every business. If you run a business, its future depends on your ability to generate data about its activities, data that can then be fed into algorithms.
ENRIQUE DANS
"Right Now, Artificial Intelligence Is The Only Thing That Matters", Forbes, July 13, 2016
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.
NICK BOSTROM
TED Talk, March 2015
Artificial Intelligence is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows us to create intelligent artifacts with human-like perception and cognition. On the other hand, it accelerates people's heavy dependence on artifacts.
MAX BRAMER
Artificial Intelligence: An International Perspective
Almost every time people have played with the idea of an AI and what it will look like, and what it means for it to be scary, it's been tremendously anthropomorphized. You have this thing -- it comes, it walks at you, and it sounds like you're probably going to die, or it made it very clear that there's some chance your life is in jeopardy. The thing that scares me the most about that is not the likelihood that in the next five years something like this will happen to us, but the likelihood that it will not. Over the course of the next five years, as companies continue to get better and better at building these technologies, the public at large will not understand what it is that is being done with their data, what they're giving away, and how they should be scared of the ways that AI is already playing in and with their lives and information.
MARAN NELSON
"How science fiction is training us to ignore the real threats posed by AI", The Verge, June 20, 2018
Our intelligence is what makes us human, and AI is an extension of that quality.
YANN LECUN
attributed, "The Robots Are Already Taking Over", Paste Magazine, January 12, 2017
Companies like calling their technologies AI. It sounds better, it's more futuristic, but it's not AI: it's actually data analytics.
ALAN SMEATON
"Artificial intelligence is dead: long live data analytics", The Irish Times, July 28, 2016
As soon as it works, no-one calls it AI anymore.
JOHN MCCARTHY
attributed, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
We can't really predict what might happen next because superintelligent A.I. may not just think faster than humans, but in ways that are completely different. It may have motivations -- feelings, even -- that we cannot fathom. It could rapidly solve the problems of aging, of human conflict, of space travel. We might see a dawning utopia. Or we might see the end of the universe.
RICK PAULAS
"How humans will lose control of artificial intelligence", The Week Magazine, April 2, 2017
If Artificial Intelligence really has little to do with computer technology and much more to do with abstract principles of mental organization, then the distinctions among AI, psychology, and even philosophy of mind seem to melt away. One can study those basic principles using tools and techniques from computer science, or with the methods of experimental psychology, or in traditional philosophical terms--but it's the same subject in each case. Thus a grand interdisciplinary marriage seems imminent; indeed, a number of enthusiasts have already taken the vows. For their new "unified" field, they have coined the name cognitive science. If you believe the advertisements, Artificial Intelligence and psychology, as well as parts of philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, are now just "subspecialties" within one coherent study of cognition, intelligence, and mind--that is, of symbol manipulation.
JOHN C. HAUGELAND
Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea
We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
ELON MUSK
Twitter post, August 2, 2014
In order to maximize positive outcomes, organizations should hire ethicists who work with corporate decisionmakers and software developers, have a code of AI ethics that lays out how various issues will be handled, organize an AI review board that regularly addresses corporate ethical questions, have AI audit trails that show how various coding decisions have been made, implement AI training programs so staff operationalizes ethical considerations in their daily work, and provide a means for remediation when AI solutions inflict harm or damages on people or organizations.
DARRELL M. WEST
"What is artificial intelligence?", Brookings Institution, October 4, 2018
If we have very powerful AI systems, it's crucial that their goals are aligned with our goals. We don't want to create machines, which are first very excited about helping us, and then later get as bored with us as kids get with Legos.
MAX TEGMARK
"Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", Future of Life Institute, August 29, 2017
Artificial General Intelligence will revolutionize humanity, its application determines if this is going to be a positive or negative impact; this is much in the same way that splitting the atom is seen as a double-edged sword.
TREVOR SANDS
"The Future of Artificial Intelligence", Hackaday, February 13, 2017
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?
RAY KURZWEIL
USA Today, Aug. 19, 2007
Making AI safe for humanity may turn out to be the same as making our society safe for humanity.
JOSCHA BACH
"Exploring the risks of artificial intelligence", Tech Crunch, March 21, 2016
What is most important about artificial intelligence as an area of specialization ... would be its ultimate objective of replicating semiotic systems. Indeed, while artificial intelligence can achieve at least some of its goals by building systems that simulate--and improve upon--the mental abilities that are deployed by human beings, it cannot secure its most treasured goals short of replication, if such a conception is correct. It therefore appears to be an ultimate irony that the ideal limit and final aim of artificial intelligence could turn out to be the development of systems capable of making mistakes.
JAMES H. FETZER
Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits
Successes have created an AI halo effect that gives a reflected shine to any tech company that invokes the concept of artificial intelligence. This, in turn, can lead to breathless coverage that inflates the significance of what is often, at heart, just data analytics, or a Wi-Fi connection.
JAMES VINCENT
"No, this toothbrush doesn't have artificial intelligence", The Verge, January 4, 2017
A sinister threat is brewing deep inside the technology laboratories of Silicon Valley. Artificial Intelligence, disguised as helpful digital assistants and self-driving vehicles, is gaining a foothold -- and it could one day spell the end for mankind.
ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD
Mail Online