ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES III

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It's true that the upheaval brought by the arrival of AI will initially disrupt existing employment patterns as roles are redefined and shared between man and machine. On the flip side there is the potential for job creation and enterprise opportunities, brought about by the displacement of mundane and repetitive work, freeing up valuable time and creativity applicable to roles higher up the value chain -- jobs where people, rather than machines, are essential.

BEN ROSSI

How artificial intelligence is driving the next industrial revolution", Information Age, February 10, 2016


In case you are sitting here pondering this question thinking that AI will never eliminate human intelligence because humans still have to program and train them, that isn't entirely true. Right now, there are of course still researchers, programmers, and engineers who train robots and rudimentary AI systems. However, more and more code -- much of it in relation to AI -- is actually being written by AI programs already. Programmers today no longer have to write long complex codes for AI telling the robot to do this or that. They simply have to write code that tells a program to write code telling the AI to do this or that.

TREVOR ENGLISH

"Will Artificial Intelligence Spell the End for Human Intelligence", Interesting Engineering, March 31, 2017


There's a thought exercise called Roko's Basilisk, which is head-meltingly complex, but part of it is that we only think AI has not emerged yet. The AI has in fact created a pre-AI reality to test how humans will react to the possibility of AI. If you're not keen, then the Basilisk won't be too pleased with you, as you're in favour of denying it existence.

SEAN MONCRIEFF

"The dark side of artificial intelligence is doomsday scary", The Irish Times, June 2, 2018


Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2010: Odyssey Two

Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, respect


If a machine can teach itself how to fly a helicopter upside down, it may be able to teach itself other things too, like how to find love on Tinder, or recognize your voice when you speak into your iPhone, or, at the outer reaches, design a Terminator-spewing Skynet.

JEFF GOODELL

"Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1", Rolling Stone, February 29, 2016


If you're scared of artificial intelligence, you should know it's already everywhere.

ROB VERGER

Popular Science, June 19, 2018


The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.

DANIEL CREVIER

AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence

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Given the zero percent historical success rate of apocalyptic predictions, coupled with the incrementally gradual development of AI over the decades, we have plenty of time to build in fail-safe systems to prevent any such AI apocalypse.

MICHAEL SHERMER

"Artificial Intelligence Is Not a Threat--Yet", Scientific American, March 2017


In a way, AI is both closer and farther off than we imagine. AI is closer to being able to do more powerful things than most people expect -- driving cars, curing diseases, discovering planets, understanding media. Those will each have a great impact on the world, but we're still figuring out what real intelligence is.

MARK ZUCKERBERG

"Building Jarvis", Facebook, December 19, 2016


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

Tags: computers, intelligence


Even the smartest AI will relentlessly follow its code once set in motion -- and this means that, if we are meaningfully to debate the adaptation of a human world into a machine-mediated one, this must take place at the design stage.

TOM CHATFIELD

"How much should we fear the rise of artificial intelligence?", The Guardian, March 18, 2016


Just what is artificial intelligence anyway? Definitions differ depending on who you ask, but in the broadest sense it's any kind of intelligence that has been artificially created. Obviously.

DAVID NIELD

"The AI glossary: 5 artificial intelligence terms you need to know", TechRadar, January 12, 2018


I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

JARON LANIER

"One Half of a Manifesto", The New Humanists: Science at the Edge


The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

TERRY WINOGRAD

"Thinking Machines: Can there be? Are we?"

Tags: mind, bureaucracy


Any kind of artificial intelligence clearly needs to possess great knowledge. But if we are going to deploy AI agents widely in society at large -- on our highways, in our nursing homes and schools, in our businesses and governments -- we will need machines to be wise as well as smart.

GILLIAN HADFIELD

"Safe artificial intelligence requires cultural intelligence", Tech Crunch, September 11, 2018


Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.

MARVIN MINSKY

"Artificial Intelligence Pioneer", NOVA, Jan. 27, 2011

Tags: machines, intelligence


AI is only as good as the data that we can feed it.

BYRON REESE

"The Power of Artificial Intelligence is to Make Better Decisions", Huffington Post, January 28, 2017


There is no official or generally agreed-upon definition of artificial intelligence.... But this lack of consensus hasn't stopped companies great and small from including AI as a revolutionary new feature in their smart TVs, smart plugs, smart headphones and other smart macguffins. (Smart, of course, only in the loosest sense: like most computers, they're fundamentally dumb as rocks.)

DEVIN COLDEWEY

"AI-powered is tech's meaningless equivalent of all natural", Techcrunch, January 10, 2017


The AI of the past used brute-force computing to analyze data and present them in a way that seemed human. The programmer supplied the intelligence in the form of decision trees and algorithms. Imagine that you were trying to build a machine that could play tic-tac-toe. You would give it specific rules on what move to make, and it would follow them. Today's AI uses machine learning in which you give it examples of previous games and let it learn from the examples. The computer is taught what to learn and how to learn and makes its decisions. What's more, the new AIs are modeling the human mind itself using techniques similar to our learning processes.

VIVEK WADHWA

"After many years, artificial intelligence is finally here", Newsday, July 4, 2016


Artificial intelligence may well help solve the most complex problems humankind faces, like curing cancer and climate change -- but in the near term, it is also likely to empower surveillance, erode privacy and turbocharge telemarketers.

JEFF GOODELL

"Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1", Rolling Stone, February 29, 2016