ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES III
quotations about artificial intelligence
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Worrying about AI evil superintelligence today is like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars. We haven't even landed on the planet yet!
ANDREW NG
"Chief Scientist at Baidu, Andrew Ng, Explains if Artificial Intelligence Is A Threat To Humanity", Huffington Post, February 8, 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
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
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
Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.
JENSEN HUANG
"Nvidia CEO: Software Is Eating the World", MIT Technology Review, May 12, 2017
In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
DANIEL CREVIER
AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence
AI skeptics are unconvincing when they say it's an unsolvable technological problem, and that there's something intrinsically unique about biological brains. Our brains are biological machines, but they're machines nonetheless; they exist in the real world and adhere to the basic laws of physics. There's nothing unknowable about them.
GEORGE DVORSKY
"Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong", Gizmodo, March 14, 2016
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 popular definition of artificial intelligence research means designing computers that think as people do, and who needs that? There is no commercial reason to duplicate human thought because there is no market for electronic people, although it might be nice if everyone could have a maid and butler. There are plenty of organic people, and computer vendors can't compete with the modern low-cost technology used in making people.
WILLIAM A. TAYLOR
What Every Engineer Should Know about Artificial Intelligence
The field of Artificial Intelligence is set to conquer most of the human disciplines; from art and literature to commerce and sociology; from computational biology and decision analysis to games and puzzles.
ANAND KRISH
"Indian Artificial Intelligence Landscape 2017", Fossbytes, February 17, 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
One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.
ALVA NOË
"Artificial Intelligence, Really, Is Pseudo-Intelligence", NPR, Nov. 21, 2014
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