ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES IX

quotations about artificial intelligence

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

YANN LECUN

attributed, "The Robots Are Already Taking Over", Paste Magazine, January 12, 2017


We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

ELON MUSK

Twitter post, August 2, 2014


It really doesn't matter if artificial intelligence is distracting us from whatever you think the "real" problem is. It's coming anyway.

KEVIN DRUM

"Artificial Intelligence Is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not", Mother Jones, February 6, 2017


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

"How humans will lose control of artificial intelligence", The Week Magazine, April 2, 2017


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

"Artificial intelligence is forcing us to work harder to define human intelligence -- and to fight to defend it", recode, December 19, 2017


Sci-fi loves to depict military AIs as malign killer minds or robots. But the truth is more subtle and more terrifying -- and it's happening right now.

KENNETH PAYNE

"Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid", New Scientist, September 12, 2018


If Artificial Intelligence really has little to do with computer technology and much more to do with abstract principles of mental organization, then the distinctions among AI, psychology, and even philosophy of mind seem to melt away. One can study those basic principles using tools and techniques from computer science, or with the methods of experimental psychology, or in traditional philosophical terms--but it's the same subject in each case. Thus a grand interdisciplinary marriage seems imminent; indeed, a number of enthusiasts have already taken the vows. For their new "unified" field, they have coined the name cognitive science. If you believe the advertisements, Artificial Intelligence and psychology, as well as parts of philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, are now just "subspecialties" within one coherent study of cognition, intelligence, and mind--that is, of symbol manipulation.

JOHN C. HAUGELAND

Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea

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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

"Why Artificial Intelligence is the answer to the greatest threat of 2017, cyber-hacking", The Independent, January 9, 2017


Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

NICK BOSTROM

TED Talk, March 2015


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

"How science fiction is training us to ignore the real threats posed by AI", The Verge, June 20, 2018


AI is not the science of building artificial people. It's not the science of understanding human intelligence. It's not even the science of trying to build artifacts that can imitate human behavior well enough to fool someone that the machine is human, as proposed in the famous Turing test ... AI is the science of making machines do tasks that humans can do or try to do ... you could argue ... that much of computer science and engineering is included in this definition.

JAMES F. ALLEN

AI Magazine, Winter 1998

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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

"Exploring the risks of artificial intelligence", Tech Crunch, March 21, 2016


Artificial General Intelligence will revolutionize humanity, its application determines if this is going to be a positive or negative impact; this is much in the same way that splitting the atom is seen as a double-edged sword.

TREVOR SANDS

"The Future of Artificial Intelligence", Hackaday, February 13, 2017


Successes have created an AI halo effect that gives a reflected shine to any tech company that invokes the concept of artificial intelligence. This, in turn, can lead to breathless coverage that inflates the significance of what is often, at heart, just data analytics, or a Wi-Fi connection.

JAMES VINCENT

"No, this toothbrush doesn't have artificial intelligence", The Verge, January 4, 2017


In order to maximize positive outcomes, organizations should hire ethicists who work with corporate decisionmakers and software developers, have a code of AI ethics that lays out how various issues will be handled, organize an AI review board that regularly addresses corporate ethical questions, have AI audit trails that show how various coding decisions have been made, implement AI training programs so staff operationalizes ethical considerations in their daily work, and provide a means for remediation when AI solutions inflict harm or damages on people or organizations.

DARRELL M. WEST

"What is artificial intelligence?", Brookings Institution, October 4, 2018


As soon as it works, no-one calls it AI anymore.

JOHN MCCARTHY

attributed, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies


If we have very powerful AI systems, it's crucial that their goals are aligned with our goals. We don't want to create machines, which are first very excited about helping us, and then later get as bored with us as kids get with Legos.

MAX TEGMARK

"Life 3.0 - Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", Future of Life Institute, August 29, 2017


The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?

RAY KURZWEIL

USA Today, Aug. 19, 2007

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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

Mail Online


What is most important about artificial intelligence as an area of specialization ... would be its ultimate objective of replicating semiotic systems. Indeed, while artificial intelligence can achieve at least some of its goals by building systems that simulate--and improve upon--the mental abilities that are deployed by human beings, it cannot secure its most treasured goals short of replication, if such a conception is correct. It therefore appears to be an ultimate irony that the ideal limit and final aim of artificial intelligence could turn out to be the development of systems capable of making mistakes.

JAMES H. FETZER

Artificial Intelligence: Its Scope and Limits

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