ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES VIII

quotations about artificial intelligence

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Today's AI fills the computational gaps in human ability, and where computers fail to exercise executive function, humans are standing by to hold the flight controls, a symbiotic relationship and an augmentation of human endeavor that undermines the tale perpetuated by those with a flair for the dramatic. Guarding against a robotic uprising is prudent, but such Terminator-esque imagery distracts from the positive influence of today's AI. Climate change, rising sea levels, unsustainable population growth, pollution, Kanye West, disease, war, greed and willful ignorance could well combine forces to end humanity, but if AI is to have a role in that play, it's not the role of bad guy. It's that of a beacon that guides Earth to safety.

COLIN WOOD

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AI is already part of the operations within many companies we interact with every day, from Apple's Siri to how Uber dispatches drivers to the way Facebook arranges its Newsfeed. In fact, Facebook is making research into AI a priority, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently stating that one of his goals this year is to "code" a personal assistant to "help run his life."

JULIA BOORSTIN

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Making AI safe for humanity may turn out to be the same as making our society safe for humanity.

JOSCHA BACH

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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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Do we need to worry about the runaway "artificial general intelligence" that goes out of control and takes over the world? Yes -- but perhaps not for another 15 or 20 years. There are justified fears that rather than being told what to learn and complementing our capabilities, AIs will start learning everything there is to learn and know far more than we do. Though some people, such as futurist Ray Kurzweil, see us using AI to evolve together, others, such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, fear that AI will usurp us. We really don't know where all this will go.

VIVEK WADHWA

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The intelligence of AI is often interpreted as mirroring human capabilities, but the scale of data potentially ... places analysis well beyond human capabilities.

JOHN CLARK

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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

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The rise of smart machines is unlike any other technological revolution because what is ultimately at stake here is the very idea of humanness -- we may be on the verge of creating a new life form, one that could mark not only an evolutionary breakthrough, but a potential threat to our survival as a species.

JEFF GOODELL

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Ever noticed how DeepMind or Watson challenge and surpass human understanding? Well, these seemingly intelligent engines are not as intelligent as they appear. See, they were developed for specificities and cannot figure out anything outside of what they are programmed for.

PATRICK HENRY

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The AI runs on a different timescale than you do; by the time your neurons finish thinking the words "I should do something" you have already lost.

ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY

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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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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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Artificial intelligence is a big buzzword for 2017. Which I just hate because I'm barely hanging onto my natural intelligence, let alone buddying up to an unseen smarty pants who can order a taxi or a pizza or a pizza to eat in a taxi if I just tell it to.

CELIA RIVENBARK

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Our intelligence is what makes us human, and AI is an extension of that quality.

YANN LECUN

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Despite how it's portrayed in books and movies, artificial intelligence is not a synthetic brain floating in a case of blue liquid somewhere. It is an algorithm -- a mathematical equation that tells a computer what functions to perform.... In the world of AI, the Holy Grail is to discover the single algorithm that will allow machines to understand the world -- the digital equivalent of the Standard Model that lets physicists explain the operations of the universe.

JEFF GOODELL

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In our own time, AI is spreading into all the various spheres of our lives, and there is tension and great concern about its impact. We are confused by dueling claims that AI will eliminate jobs or create new ones; that it will eliminate bias or perpetuate it and make it harder to identify; that it will lead us to longer, happier lives -- or to extinction.

IRINA RAICU

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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

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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

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I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know this is something that you're going to want to see.

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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