quotations about artificial intelligence
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
Currently, all evidence points that Al is not intelligent as the ordinary citizen has been made to believe. It all depends on the content that humans feed the machines.
PATRICK HENRY
"Just how Artificial is Artificial Intelligence?", TrendinTech, December 16, 2016
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
The AI that I know is a branch of computational mathematics. That's really all there is to it: math. And it's not even that difficult. Compared with the equations of theoretical physics, which is what my university thesis was on, computational math is not that complicated. It was basically invented in 1936 by Turing, so it is only 80 years old. But look how it has changed the world.
PIERO SCARUFFI
"Why Everything Elon Musk Fears About AI Is Wrong", PC Mag, June 19, 2018
Unlike any other human invention, AI has the potential to reshape humanity, but it could also destroy us.
GEORGE DVORSKY
"Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong", Gizmodo, March 14, 2016
Whether sophisticated AI turns out to be friend or foe, we must come to grips with the possibility that as we move further into the 21st century, the greatest intelligence on the planet may be silicon-based.
SUSAN SCHNEIDER
"The Problem of AI Consciousness", Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence, March 18, 2016
Artificial intelligence is OK at a distance. Up close and personal, however, the lack of a human face counts more and more.
TOM CHATFIELD
"How much should we fear the rise of artificial intelligence?", The Guardian, March 18, 2016
Thanks to AI, the face will be the new credit card, the new driver's license and the new barcode.
GEORGES NAHON
"8 ways artificial intelligence is going to change the way you live, work and play in 2018", CNBC, January 5, 2018
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
Artificial intelligence is fueled by data. Pick an approach, and you'll find data at the center. Why? Because large volumes of complete data sets are needed to accurately recognize significant patterns of behavior with people, events or other characterizations, and that's what AI is all about.
TOM FISHER
"Big Data, Small Target: The Smart Approach To Artificial Intelligence", Forbes, January 16, 2018
The essence of artificial intelligence is massive, intuitive computing power: machines so smart that they can learn and become even smarter. If that sounds creepy, you are overthinking the concept. The machines are becoming quicker and more nimble, not sentient. There is no impending threat to humanity from computers that become bored and plot our doom. HAL, the computer villain from "2001: A Space Odyssey," is fictional.
EDITORIAL BOARD
"Artificial intelligence isn't the scary future. It's the amazing present.", Chicago Tribune, January 1, 2017
Google's work in artificial intelligence ... includes deep neural networks, networks of hardware and software that approximate the web of neurons in the human brain. By analyzing vast amounts of digital data, these neural nets can learn all sorts of useful tasks, like identifying photos, recognizing commands spoken into a smartphone, and, as it turns out, responding to Internet search queries. In some cases, they can learn a task so well that they outperform humans. They can do it better. They can do it faster. And they can do it at a much larger scale.
CADE METZ
"AI is transforming Google Search -- The rest of the Web is next", Wired, February 4, 2016
We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
ELON MUSK
Twitter post, August 2, 2014
Artificial intelligence is capable of many things, and now it looks like AI could potentially given screenwriters a run for their money. There is a movie that has been launched on Kickstarter called Impossible Things, and while movies seeking funding isn't exactly new, what makes this project so unique is that the script was co-written by AI.
TYLER LEE
"'Impossible Things' is a Movie Written by Artificial Intelligence'", Ubergizmo, July 26, 2016
Do we need to worry about the runaway "artificial general intelligence" that goes out of control and takes over the world? Yes -- but perhaps not for another 15 or 20 years. There are justified fears that rather than being told what to learn and complementing our capabilities, AIs will start learning everything there is to learn and know far more than we do. Though some people, such as futurist Ray Kurzweil, see us using AI to evolve together, others, such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, fear that AI will usurp us. We really don't know where all this will go.
VIVEK WADHWA
"After many years, artificial intelligence is finally here", Newsday, July 4, 2016
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
HERBERT A. SIMON
The Sciences of the Artificial
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
The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard. The mental abilities of a four-year-old that we take for granted -- recognizing a face, lifting a pencil, walking across a room, answering a question -- in fact solve some of the hardest engineering problems ever conceived.... As the new generation of intelligent devices appears, it will be the stock analysts and petrochemical engineers and parole board members who are in danger of being replaced by machines. The gardeners, receptionists, and cooks are secure in their jobs for decades to come.
STEVEN PINKER
The Language Instinct
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
Ever noticed how DeepMind or Watson challenge and surpass human understanding? Well, these seemingly intelligent engines are not as intelligent as they appear. See, they were developed for specificities and cannot figure out anything outside of what they are programmed for.
PATRICK HENRY
"Just how Artificial is Artificial Intelligence?", TrendinTech, December 16, 2016