Quotes About Automation

I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.

Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause.

Machine learning is a new way of creating problem solving.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

I never remember to do that stuff on my own." "I figured. I'm also updating your virus software and installing some other free programs to keep this thing running well.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

UPS are replacing fixed daily routes with dynamic ones adjusted in real time for weather and traffic—again with machine learning. Only cognitive technologies can handle all the necessary data. And at some point supply chains may be powered by autonomously driven trucks, which will bring enormous changes to that domain.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

My father says everything's going to be machines when we grow up. He says the only jobs open will be in junkyards for busted machines. The only thing a machine can't do is play jokes. That's all they'll use people for, is jokes.

The replacement of human muscle by machine power, and the growing importance of industries and occupations not dependent on either, have made sex differences and age differences no longer as significant as they had once been.

Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods were produced.

Using machines to make other machines allowed finer tolerances to be maintained-sometimes down to a thousandth of an inch-and this in turn meant that parts could be made interchangeable.

I don't own a computer. I'm waiting for the kind where I can look at the screen and say, "Hey, I need a pizza," and one comes out and hits me in the eyebrows.

I read somewhere that all the digitized announcers on the tube have names.

There was no need to call the meeting to order. Robots are orderly by default.

Write tests until fear is transformed into boredom

Rather than apply minutes of suspect reasoning, we can just ask the computer by making the change and running the tests.

In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital. To

Acuity, ScheduleOnce, Calendly, and, of course, x.ai (to name a few examples among many)

These are the knowledge work equivalents of speeding up the craft method of car manufacturing by giving the workers faster shoes.

As digital technology reduces the need for labor in many industries, the proportion of the rewards returned to those who own the intelligent machines is growing. A venture capitalist in today's economy can fund a company like Instagram, which was eventually sold for a billion dollars, while employing only thirteen people. When else in history could such a small amount of labor be involved in such a large amount of value?

With so little input from labor, the proportion of this wealth that flows back to the machine owners—in this case, the venture investors—is without precedent. It's no wonder that a venture capitalist I interviewed for my last book admitted to me with some concern, "Everyone wants my job.