Quotes from Oren Etzioni

To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.

Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software.

Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions.

I'd like to make a fundamental impact on one of the most exciting, intelligent questions of all time. Can we use software and hardware to build intelligence into a machine? Can that machine help us solve cancer? Can that machine help us solve climate change?

Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most of us get our food.

When you have a large amount of data that is labeled so a computer knows what it means, and you have a large amount of computing power, and you're trying to find patterns in that data, we've found that deep learning is unbeatable.

Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called 'AI complete,' meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve artificial intelligence.

Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy.

Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These technologies gather unprecedented data streams leading to formidable challenges around privacy, profiling, manipulation, and personal safety.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.

It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.

I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address.

Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI.

A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems.