ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES VI

quotations about artificial intelligence

It's striking how many of the world's leading scientific thinkers -- Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Tim Berners-Lee and the late Stephen Hawking -- all worry that an AI will regard us as annoying bugs.

SEAN MONCRIEFF

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


Artificial intelligence is only as good as the data it crunches.

JONATHAN VANIAN

"Why Data Is The New Oil", Fortune, July 11, 2016


The strong comeback for AI after a long and extended hiatus provides a lesson in the sociology of science, underscoring the need to put forward ideas that challenge the technological status quo.

YOSHUA BENGIO

"Machines Who Learn", Scientific American, June 2016


The road to true artificial intelligence is not paved with a single discipline, but rather a collection of specialized subject matters, techniques and theories that together interact to create some form of intelligence.

CHRISTOFFER O. HERNOES

"AI is closer than we know", Tech Crunch, March 11, 2016


Consider what it means to teach an autonomous robot to do something as simple as mowing grass. First, you take a long wire and lay it carefully around the borders of your lawn. Then you can set your mower loose. It doesn't know or care what a lawn is, or what mowing means: it will simply criss-cross the area bound by the wire until it has covered all the ground. You have successfully adapted an environment -- your lawn -- into something a machine understands.

TOM CHATFIELD

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


A computer with a consciousness or human-like executive function doesn't exist yet, so strong AI remains the purview of Hollywood and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Today's humanist concerns himself with weak AI applications, the kind of smart software with narrowly defined functionality that increasingly pervades daily life across economic classes.

COLIN WOOD

"Grounding AI: Artificial Intelligence is Closer -- and Less Awesome -- than Most Realize", Government Technology, January 20, 2016


Future AIs, should they ever wax philosophical, may pose a "problem of carbon-based consciousness" about us, asking if biological, carbon-based beings have the right substrate for experience. After all, how could AI ever be certain that we are conscious?

SUSAN SCHNEIDER

"The Problem of AI Consciousness", Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence, March 18, 2016


Artificial intelligence is that field of computer usage which attempts to construct computational mechanisms for activities that are considered to require intelligence when performed by humans.

DEREK PARTRIDGE

Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering

Tags: computers, intelligence


Debates about artificial intelligence (AI) cover a lot of theoretical ground, from whether smart robots will eliminate jobs(and/or the human race) to how we'll all fit neatly into a computer simulation after the singularity. There's a lot of philosophical meat on those bones to gnaw through.

BRANDON REYNOLDS

"4 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Actually Going To Change The Way You Do Sales", Forbes, January 31, 2017


Within the weak AI camp there is an active research area called cognitive science which uses computers to model human behavior with the intention of learning more about human beings. A very important aspect of this is the relationship between humans and computers. Whether or not it is possible to build human-like machines, we certainly build human-computer systems which involve both machines and people. For such systems to function properly it is just as important to engineer the human part of the system as it is to engineer the physical computing part of the system.

JEFFREY JOHNSON & PHILIP PICTON

Mechatronics Volume 2: Concepts in Artificial Intelligence

Tags: computers


Is AI coming soon? I find this question too boring to spend much time on anymore. Of course it's coming soon. The only question I'm interested in is what we're going to do about it. I keep pondering this, and I keep failing to come up with any likely answers that are very optimistic in the medium term. Maybe I'm not thinking outside the box enough. But it sure looks like we're determined to keep our collective heads in the sand for a long time. At best, the result is going to be a grim future of plutocracy for some and the dole for everyone else.

KEVIN DRUM

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


We will see AI emerging as a major and a powerful tool in both the detection and investigation of malice and in the construction of systems resilient to attack. But what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Cyberhackers can use AI too and so the cyber-arms war will continue.

JOHN CLARK

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


Technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are fashioning how people interact with everything from food to healthcare -- and so, too, for religion. From electronic scriptures to robot priests, different faiths have absorbed new ideas from the world of technology to enhance mainstream religious practices.

SHAFI MUSADDIQUE

"How artificial intelligence is shaping religion in the 21st century", CNBC, May 11, 2018


For the past few decades, we have been tailoring our lives to accommodate bots and introducing new environments that bots comprehend. So, technically, we have programmed ourselves into the proverbial corner, with every aspect of our lives built in a way to be understood by bots and becoming so complex that we ourselves cannot understand without AI. We got ourselves into a pickle, didn't we?

SARIA JOSEPH BEAINY

"Why We Should be Scared of Artificial Intelligence", The Weekly Observer, March 21, 2016


Figuring out how to reconcile conflicting values is one of the most important challenges facing AI designers. It is vital that they write code and incorporate information that is unbiased and non-discriminatory. Failure to do that leads to AI algorithms that are unfair and unjust.

DARRELL M. WEST

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


If there's one thing the world's most valuable companies agree on, it's that their future success hinges on artificial intelligence.

ENRIQUE DANS

"Right Now, Artificial Intelligence Is The Only Thing That Matters", Forbes, July 13, 2016


Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

RAY KURZWEIL

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Tags: Ray Kurzweil


The rise of A.I. cannot be rolled back. But, rather than simply trying to control it through the command and control regulations of years past, Washington should embrace change and seek to construct new regulatory approaches that can channel these powerful tools toward positive ends. That would be revolutionary indeed.

COLIN MCCORMICK

"Be Like Lee", Slate, March 22, 2016


Life might be about to get a lot shorter, if the AI-related fears of Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jaan Tallinn, Nick Bostrom and a host of other giant scientific minds are realised. Concerns range from unchecked AGI weaponry to the spectre of a "technological singularity", leading to an "intelligence explosion" in which a machine becomes capable of recursive self-improvement, and in doing so surpasses the intellectual capacity of the human brain and, by extension, our ability to control it. Should a super-intelligence disaster loom, history is not exactly a reliable indicator that we'll have had the foresight to withdraw from the AI arms race before it's too late.

CLEMENCY BURTON-HILL

"The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check?", The Guardian, February 16, 2016


If we succeed in building human equivalent AI and if that AI acquires a full understanding of how it works, and if it then succeeds in improving itself to produce super-intelligent AI, and if that super-AI, accidentally or maliciously, starts to consume resources, and if we fail to pull the plug, then, yes, we may well have a problem.

ALAN WINFIELD

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