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Quotes About AI

The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hal's internal fault predictor could have made a mistake." "It's more
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hello, Dave," said Hal presently. "Have you found the trouble?" This
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hal (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Dr. C. informs me that, in technical terminology, Hal became trapped in a Hofstadter–Moebius loop, a situation apparently not uncommon among advanced computers with autonomous goal-seeking programs. He suggests that for further information you contact Professor Hofstadter himself.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I HEAR YOU, FRANK. THIS IS DAVE.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hal remained a low-grade moron.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
after Hal had refused to open the Pod Bay door.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Now, what did "feel" really mean to a computer? Another very good question, but hardly one to be considered at that particular moment. Then
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson." There
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.
~ Gray Scott
There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.
~ Marvin Minsky
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
~ Marvin Minsky
I think the world will just be better if AI is helping us. It will reduce the cost of goods, giving us good education, changing the way we run hospitals and the health-care system - there's just a long list of things.
~ Andrew Ng
I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.
~ Jamie Hewlett
If someone has a fantastic biology background, he or she can contribute in AI and health care. AI has many aspects.
~ Fei-Fei Li
There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
I will continue my work to shepherd in this important societal change... In addition to working on AI myself, I will also explore new ways to support all of you in the global AI community so that we can all work together to bring this AI-powered society to fruition.
~ Andrew Ng
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
~ Ian Watson
The biggest ethical challenge AI is facing is jobs. You have to reskill your workforce not just to create a wealthier society but a fairer one. A lot of call centre jobs will go away, and a radiologist's job will be transformed.
~ Andrew Ng
Automation is no longer just a problem for those working in manufacturing. Physical labor was replaced by robots; mental labor is going to be replaced by AI and software.
~ Andrew Yang
We have a large number of people working in AI. If you look around homes and the workplace, there are all these sensors in many devices. This is what people commonly call the Internet of Things.
~ Andy Jassy
I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.
~ Geoffrey Hinton
The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat and tears. It's not the kind of thing that suddenly takes off like 'Her' or in 'Ex Machina.'
~ Oren Etzioni