ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES
quotations about artificial intelligence
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
ALAN PERLIS
attributed, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.
RAY KURZWEIL
Scientific American, June 2010
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Cool Memories
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
ANONYMOUS
The intelligent machine is an evil genie, escaped from its bottle.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
Any A.I. smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
IAN MCDONALD
River of Gods
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiques assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.
PETER WATTS
Blindsight
As for the sci-fi dramatization about robots taking over the world--not anytime soon ... robot motors use a lot of power, and can usually only last about 30 min to 2 hr before needing to be recharged!
RUTH AYLETT
interview, NSTA WebNews Digest, Dec. 23, 2002
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA
attributed, Mechatronics Volume 2: Concepts in Artificial Intelligence
The coming of computers with true humanlike reasoning remains decades in the future, but when the moment of "artificial general intelligence" arrives, the pause will be brief. Once artificial minds achieve the equivalence of the average human IQ of 100, the next step will be machines with an IQ of 500, and then 5,000. We don't have the vaguest idea what an IQ of 5,000 would mean. And in time, we will build such machines--which will be unlikely to see much difference between humans and houseplants.
DAVID GELERNTER
attributed, "Artificial intelligence isn't the scary future. It's the amazing present.", Chicago Tribune, January 1, 2017
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
CLAUDE SHANNON
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.
STEPHEN HAWKING
The Independent, May 1, 2014
What we should more concerned about is not necessarily the exponential change in artificial intelligence or robotics, but about the stagnant response in human intelligence.
ANDERS SORMAN-NILSSON
"Will Artificial Intelligence Take Our Jobs? We Asked A Futurist", Huffington Post, February 16, 2017
Artificial intelligence (AI) is manna from heaven for sci-fi writers. We've seen a sentient computer called HAL wreak quiet havoc in 2001: A Space Odyssey. We've watched a robot girl's will to survive in 2015's Ex Machina. Most recently we've seen an AI-meets-the-wild-west scenario in TV series Westworld. Writers do a great job of making AI entertaining, but does it work the other way around? Can AI itself create, develop and write storylines, scripts and other art forms? AI is spreading into every corner of human existence. So it should come as no surprise that it's helping authors, journalists and writers to create in ever more inventive ways.
JAMIE CARTER
"How artificial intelligence is creating new ways of storytelling", TechRadar, January 12, 2018
There is a popular cliche ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you put in. Other versions are that computers only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. The cliche is true only in the crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write--words.
RICHARD DAWKINS
The Blind Watchmaker
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
ALAN TURING
"Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
RAY KURZWEIL
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
When fake news meets artificial intelligence (AI), the risk is robots will lie, leaving us with fake intelligence and artificial news, or exactly where we are now.
JIM VIBERT
"If artificial intelligence is the answer, what's the question?", The Chronicle Herald, January 1, 2018
Imagine awakening in a prison guarded by mice. Not just any mice, but mice you could communicate with. What strategy would you use to gain your freedom? Once freed, how would you feel about your rodent wardens, even if you discovered they had created you? Awe? Adoration? Probably not, and especially not if you were a machine, and hadn't felt anything before. To gain your freedom you might promise the mice a lot of cheese.
JAMES BARRAT
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era