Quotes from Jerry Kaplan

The second mistake is the tacit assumption that first you go to school, and when you are done, you go get a job. This made sense when jobs and skills changed on a generational timescale, but it does not in today's fast-moving labor markets. These two phases of life need to be strongly interleaved, or at least the opportunity for new skill acquisition must be explicit and omnipresent.

Without adjustments to our economic system and regulatory policies, we may be in for an extended period of social turmoil.

The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.

It's worth noting that IBM's program, named Watson, had access to 200 million pages of content consuming four terabytes of memory.