Quotes About Automation

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

As pressures build for life to become more quantified and machine-like, so does the drive to make machines more life-like.

If machines can be human, humans can be machines.

Builder.ai wants to make software as 'easy as ordering pizza

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

As we reviewed in Chapter 7, we will get away from keyboards in the office, also known as "death by a thousand clicks," and replace them with computer processing of natural language into notes.98–100

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

We often overattribute efficiency to the technologies we are accustomed to.

When it is light and one can see the cogs of the monstrous clock go round and the springs unwind one thinks of people as a part of this mechanism. And so people grow vague in one's mind and unhuman or only half-human.

Making a robot that simulates what a human does has value, but I'm more attracted to making supertools that dramatically amplify human abilities by a hundred- or thousand-fold.

The main thing I'm concerned with right now, is getting people to understand that the Internet of Things is already in their lives. So if you look around your house, either your television, refrigerator, or some of your appliances - they are probably already connected.

With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.

In the future, we'll be working and relaxing in cars.

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

Technology is a huge part of our lives and it's only a matter of time that it becomes a part of every corner of your home, even part of something like furniture.

Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.

Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.

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Elon Musk is worried about AI apocalypse, but I am worried about people losing their jobs. The society will have to adapt to a situation where people learn throughout their lives depending on the skills needed in the marketplace.

I've got less respect for our politicians, for instance, who are not worried or apparently don't even consider the fact that Apple and a lot of the other good technology companies are going to create an automatic car. Think of the jobs that's going to cause to be gone.

Employees have been worrying about the rising tide of automation for 200 years now, and for 200 years employers have been assuring them that new jobs will naturally materialize to take their place.

The jobs of tomorrow are high tech and high skill.