Quotes About Automation

There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them.

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking—there's the real danger. Look at how long you walked across this desert without thinking about your face mask.

But there's another way to describe the convenience of the machine: It is the surrender of free will—algorithms make choices for us.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side.

One thing I want to do is get Silicon Valley to think harder about those who have been left behind by the technology revolution. It has created huge winners for those who are able to understand it and are adept at it. But it has also displaced a tremendous number of jobs.

People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.

If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent.

Even things like supermarket self-checkouts, they do mean people's jobs go. It's always worth thinking about the implications of things. Just because something's easier, it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

movie 2001: A Space Odyssey." Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals.

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

More testing should be done automatically. It's important to note that by automatically we meant that the test /results/ are interpreted automatically as well.

Let the computer do the repetitious, the mundane—it will do a better job of it than we would. We've got more important and more difficult things to do.