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Quotes About Artificial

Así pues el señor G., al haberse impuesto la tarea de buscar y explicar la belleza de la modernidad, representa mujeres muy arregladas y embellecidas por todas las pompas artificiales, cualquiera que sea el estrato social al que pertenecen.
~ Charles Baudelaire
puts the final seal on the replacement of the authentic, billion-year-old natural world by a new, artificial world whose every surface bears the greasy human fingerprint.
~ Charles C. Mann
That looks nasty, I hope you've got a change of clothes back at the office. I guess now we know why real superheroes wear artificial fibers.
~ Charles Stross
Any artificial entity that's willing to upload its neural state vector into a one-kilogram interstellar probe three-quarters of the way to Alpha Centauri without backup or some clear way of returning home has got to be more than a few methods short in the object factory.
~ Charles Stross
zimboe—a zombie with no self-awareness, but programmed to claim to be aware in an attempt to deceive the truly conscious beings around it.
~ Charles Stross
All large organizations are either superorganisms whose cells are human bodies, or very slow artificial intelligences that use human beings as gears in the Babbage engines that run their code.
~ Charles Stross
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
~ Karel Capek
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
~ Christian Lacroix
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
~ Bruce Robinson
I know I am an android, but I feel so ... happy.
~ Tim Lebbon
Most other front gardens when planted with flowers looked both formal and artificial. Judith Haymaker, for instance, had put in daffodil and hyacinth bulbs so that they came up in rigid rows, a sight English women would have smiled at. While plentiful, Mrs Reed's flowers had a randomness about them that reminded Honor of coming upon primroses or anemones in the woods. They were just there, as if they always had been. It took real skill to remove the gardener's hand from the garden.
~ Tracy Chevalier
What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness. As AIs develop, we might have to engineer ways to prevent consciousness in them. Our most premium AI services will likely be advertised as consciousness-free. Nonhuman
~ Kevin Kelly
We should really call AIs "AAs," for "artificial aliens." An
~ Kevin Kelly
What we want instead of conscious intelligence is artificial smartness.
~ Kevin Kelly
All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.
~ George Monbiot
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
~ George Santayana
History is man-made, like this pair of shoes, though it pinches more.
~ George Steiner
Today chemists can artificially make hundreds of thousands of organic compounds, most of which are not duplicated in nature.
~ George W. Stocking
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
~ Tags: hunting
Alison's mum has had a lot of plastic surgery and she wears fake eyelashes the size of hairbrushes. She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.
~ Tana French
Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
~ Ted Bell
What's intrinsic? There was no intrinsic need for digients to have charming personalities or cute avatars, but there was still a good reason for it: they made people more likely to spend time with them, and that was good for the digients.
~ Ted Chiang