Category: Quotes

“Debiasing humans is harder than debiasing AI systems.” Olga Russakovsky

‘…the trumpet is not, itself, creative. Artificial-intelligence algorithms are more like musical instruments than they are like people.’  Sean Dorrance Kelly

‘AI is good at automating tasks, rather than jobs.’ – Andrew Ng

‘It is not that machines are going to replace chemists. It’s that the chemists who use machines will replace those that don’t.’ Derek Lowe

By far, the greatest danger of artificial intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. -Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘An AI company is not just combining internet + digital + machine learning. It’s strategic data acquisition, central data warehousing, pervasive automation, new job descriptions.’ – Andrew Ng

‘I know better than most people what it’s like to compete against a machine. Instead of raging against them, it’s better if we’re all on the same side’. – Gary Kasparov

‘If you were in the horseshoe business in 1910 you might have felt threatened. But if you were in the transportation business, you faced a very promising future.’ – Ray Kurzweil

How people think about technologies matters. This is not simply because technologies are the primary contributor to economic growth worldwide. It’s because technologies shape people, and people shape technologies. – World Economic Forum

‘AI risks bias laundering’ – Margaret Mitchell

Our brains are as big and fast as they can be – Asimov debate 2018

”It’s very hard to imagine how our existing media jurisprudence holds up under an environment when you can have bad actions without bad actors.’ – Clay Shirky

AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire. – Sundar Pichal

‘Intelligence’ is the ability to achieve complex outcomes – Max Tegmark

‘The future depends on some graduate student being deeply suspicious of everything I have said.’ – Geoffrey Hinton

‘I don’t worry about smart AI. I worry about stupid AI.’ – Toby Walsh

“Machine learning drives our algorithms for demand forecasting, product search ranking, product and deals recommendations, merchandising placements, fraud detection, translations, and much more. Though less visible, much of the impact of machine learning will be of this type — quietly…

‘(We are) more likely to have a long wait and a fast transition.‘ – Nick Bostrum

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we’ll augment our intelligence. – Ginni Rometty

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would…

I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon. –…

“The hardest problems we have to face do not come from philosophical questions about whether brains are machines or not. There is not the slightest reason to doubt that brains are anything other than machines with enormous numbers of parts…

‘I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us greatly in finding out how we think ourselves.’ Alan Turing (1951)