Quotes About Automation

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Machines can work 24/7, humans can't.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

observing the way the rig needed only occasional human intervention to stay locked on the road. Doubtless it could have managed with none at all, were it not for local union laws. Very

At work, either you will be telling a machine what to do or a machine will be telling you what to do.

Urmson and his colleagues learned that as their technology improved, the humans using it would become less reliable. "We realized that this was going to be much much harder to do than we had thought," said engineer Dave Ferguson. "It just became clear that, look, if we can't rely on the driver to pay attention, or to hand over control to, then basically we just have to solve the whole problem. We need to have this vehicle not need the driver.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Really, I like the future. I appreciate my automatic alarm-call necklace in case I get lost and confused in a mall. I appreciate the watch that tells the hospital my blood pressure's gone ballistic. I like my computer, just as long as it doesn't get ideas above its workstation.

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.

Automation will significantly change many people's lives in ways that may be painful and enduring.

I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.

Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.

Cars will talk to each other and the world around them to make driving both safer and more efficient. 'Vehicle-to-vehicle' and 'vehicle-to-infrastructure' connectivity will become commonplace.

I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

As a society I think we are going to be much better off by having machines that can work in conjunction with humans to do things more efficiently and even better in some cases. That will 'enable humans to do things that they do better than machines.