Quotes About Artificial

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

Let's cast aside notions of red counties or blue counties and recognize that these are artificial divisions.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

The air was full of human essence, of artificial enticement, of coquetry, indolence, pleasure — the man-made sense of existence.

Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

The computer is also not famous for having mercy.

Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the science. It is the artificial limitations that hamper us—and, through us, you.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," he told Dukas. "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

John McCarthy, a Santa Claus lookalike who coined the term artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy

perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let

El test de Turing, que él llamaba «juego de imitación», es sencillo: un interrogador remite preguntas por escrito a un humano y a una máquina que se encuentran en otra habitación, y trata de determinar a partir de sus respuestas cuál de los dos es el humano.

1956 conference at Dartmouth organized by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, where the field of artificial intelligence was launched.

In 1958 a Cornell professor, Frank Rosenblatt, attempted to do this by devising a mathematical approach for creating an artificial neural network like that of the brain, which he called a Perceptron.

You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

Some people have become as processed as the food.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy . Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?

It's just a robot. It doesn't have feelings … yet.

Passionately yes, passionately no" is the worst of all tastes. And now after one has overcome that, after one has followed this natural inclination, one must learn to put some art into one's feelings and rather make an experiment with the artificial as distinguished from and opposed to the natural. That is what the true artists of life do. They do not follow the natural impulses, but experiment with the artificial.