Quotes About Augmentation

Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

The reason that stuff goes bad is because it's crappy old tech. Internal augs are less failure-prone than your own brain." "So they'll work flawlessly when some spambot hacks in and leaves me with an irresistible urge to buy a year's supply of bubble bath for cats.

I knew their numbers increased;

With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.

I love to compound interest in everything I do in life in all ways not just monetary activities but in all ways

I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

The essential condition for the existence and sway of the bourgeoisie class,is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor.

Changing our genes in order to improve our lives and to facilitate further improvements is no different in this regard from augmenting our skin with clothes or our eyes with telescopes.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

The number of which this branch of the legislature is to consist, at the outset of the government, will be sixty-five. Within three years a census is to be taken, when the number may be augmented to one for every thirty thousand inhabitants; and within every successive period of ten years the census is to be renewed, and augmentations may continue to be made under the above limitation.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

I think the sport is growing and along with it weight classes have to be added.

I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.

and were making themselves into many things they have never been before: augmented, multi-sexed, and most importantly, very long lived, the oldest at that point being around two hundred years old. But not one whit wiser, or even more intelligent. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since.

Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

Growth is good, at least for those doing the growing.

Elements of the world outside may effectively act as mental "extensions," allowing us to think in ways our brains could not manage on their own.

I just like getting bigger and bigger. Taking it to another level, even as far as features and production.

Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process.

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.