quotations about artificial intelligence
AI resembles the gray matter in your head about as much as a pull-string doll resembles a rocket scientist. There's a similarity in shape, ish: So-called neural networks are software programs inspired by neuroscience. But these systems have only a few million "neurons," which are really just nodes with some input/output connections. That's puny compared to the 100 billion genuine neurons in your cranium. Read it and weep, Alexa!
LEE SIMMONS
"Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not Like Your Brain--Yet", Wired, January 3, 2018
Unfortunately, like global warming, the effects of AI are slow and invisible--on a human timescale anyway. So it's easy to pretend--no matter how idiotic this is--that AI is just a rerun of the Industrial Revolution. It's easy to pretend that each new advance isn't really a step toward true AI. It's easy to pretend that each individual industry to fall is just a special case. It's easy to pretend that something else is always more important.
KEVIN DRUM
"Artificial Intelligence Is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not", Mother Jones, February 6, 2017
The worst thing we could do would be to imagine that machines can do all our thinking for us; they can't. We are moral creatures, and we can't avoid that responsibility.
MARK WOODS
"Can A Robot Sin? How Artificial Intelligence Is Challenging Christian Ethics", Christian Today, January 12, 2017