ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES VII

quotations about artificial intelligence

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Life might be about to get a lot shorter, if the AI-related fears of Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jaan Tallinn, Nick Bostrom and a host of other giant scientific minds are realised. Concerns range from unchecked AGI weaponry to the spectre of a "technological singularity", leading to an "intelligence explosion" in which a machine becomes capable of recursive self-improvement, and in doing so surpasses the intellectual capacity of the human brain and, by extension, our ability to control it. Should a super-intelligence disaster loom, history is not exactly a reliable indicator that we'll have had the foresight to withdraw from the AI arms race before it's too late.

CLEMENCY BURTON-HILL

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The science of machine learning is largely experimental because no universal learning algorithm exists--none can enable the computer to learn every task it is given well. Any knowledge-acquisition algorithm needs to be tested on learning tasks and data specific to the situation at hand, whether it is recognizing a sunset or translating English into Urdu. There is no way to prove that it will be consistently better across the board for any given situation than all other algorithms.

YOSHUA BENGIO

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Currently, all evidence points that Al is not intelligent as the ordinary citizen has been made to believe. It all depends on the content that humans feed the machines.

PATRICK HENRY

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Whether sophisticated AI turns out to be friend or foe, we must come to grips with the possibility that as we move further into the 21st century, the greatest intelligence on the planet may be silicon-based.

SUSAN SCHNEIDER

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Artificial intelligence is fueled by data. Pick an approach, and you'll find data at the center. Why? Because large volumes of complete data sets are needed to accurately recognize significant patterns of behavior with people, events or other characterizations, and that's what AI is all about.

TOM FISHER

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When people talk about the future of technology, especially artificial intelligence, they very often have the common dystopian Hollywood-movie model of us versus the machines. My view is that we will use these tools as we've used all other tools--to broaden our reach. And in this case, we'll be extending the most important attribute we have, which is our intelligence.

RAY KURZWEIL

Tags: Ray Kurzweil

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Artificial intelligence is capable of many things, and now it looks like AI could potentially given screenwriters a run for their money. There is a movie that has been launched on Kickstarter called Impossible Things, and while movies seeking funding isn't exactly new, what makes this project so unique is that the script was co-written by AI.

TYLER LEE

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As we deploy more and give more responsibilities to artificial agents, risks of malfunction that have negative consequences are increasing.

PHILIPPE PASQUIER

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Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

HERBERT A. SIMON

Tags: environment

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It does not matter how fast the computer is, how much memory it has, or how complex and high-level the programming language. The Jeopardy and Chess playing champs Watson and Deep Blue fundamentally work the same as your microwave. Put simply, a strict symbol-processing machine can never be a symbol-understanding machine.

BOBBY AZARIAN

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Thanks to AI, the face will be the new credit card, the new driver's license and the new barcode.

GEORGES NAHON

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Unlike any other human invention, AI has the potential to reshape humanity, but it could also destroy us.

GEORGE DVORSKY

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Artificial intelligence is OK at a distance. Up close and personal, however, the lack of a human face counts more and more.

TOM CHATFIELD

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Nowadays, we have computers performing tasks that require the equivalent of human intelligence. Back in the day it was thought that this would require a certain type of processing: a deep semantic representation of meaning and complex inference. It turns out that sheer brute force data analytics cuts the mustard just as well.

ALAN SMEATON

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The AI that I know is a branch of computational mathematics. That's really all there is to it: math. And it's not even that difficult. Compared with the equations of theoretical physics, which is what my university thesis was on, computational math is not that complicated. It was basically invented in 1936 by Turing, so it is only 80 years old. But look how it has changed the world.

PIERO SCARUFFI

Tags: mathematics

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Google's work in artificial intelligence ... includes deep neural networks, networks of hardware and software that approximate the web of neurons in the human brain. By analyzing vast amounts of digital data, these neural nets can learn all sorts of useful tasks, like identifying photos, recognizing commands spoken into a smartphone, and, as it turns out, responding to Internet search queries. In some cases, they can learn a task so well that they outperform humans. They can do it better. They can do it faster. And they can do it at a much larger scale.

CADE METZ

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The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. The mental abilities of a four-year-old that we take for granted -- recognizing a face, lifting a pencil, walking across a room, answering a question -- in fact solve some of the hardest engineering problems ever conceived.... As the new generation of intelligent devices appears, it will be the stock analysts and petrochemical engineers and parole board members who are in danger of being replaced by machines. The gardeners, receptionists, and cooks are secure in their jobs for decades to come.

STEVEN PINKER

Tags: Steven Pinker

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AI, which will likely get to AGI (artificial general intelligence) by being programmed to self-improve, wouldn't see "human-level intelligence" as some important milestone--it's only a relevant marker from our point of view--and wouldn't have any reason to "stop" at our level.... It's pretty obvious that it would only hit human intelligence for a brief instant before racing onwards to the realm of superior-to-human intelligence.

TIM URBAN

Tags: intelligence

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AI is not a passing trend. It's been with us for decades and is here to stay. As technology and science improve, so will the algorithms behind AI and the hardware that's running it. However, I still believe it must improve before it can become an inseparable and integral part of our lives.

JURICA DUJMOVIC

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The next innovations will come through artificial intelligence. From then on, it will be the AI innovating. We need to think about our role as technologists and we need to think about the ramifications--positive and negative--and we need to transform ourselves as innovators.

ATEFEH RIAZI

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