Quotes About Understanding

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

But intelligence is not just a matter of acting or behaving intelligently. Behavior is a manifestation of intelligence, but not the central characteristic or primary definition of being intelligent. A moment's reflection proves this: You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding. Ignoring what goes on in your head and focusing instead on behavior has been a large impediment to understanding intelligence and building intelligent machines

AI scientists tried to program computers to act like humans without first answering what intelligence is and what it means to understand. They left out the most important part of building intelligent machines, the intelligence! "Real intelligence" makes the point that before we attempt to build intelligent machines, we have to first understand how the brain thinks, and there is nothing artificial about that. Only then can we ask how we can build intelligent machines

Intelligence and understanding started as a memory system that fed predictions into the sensory system. These predictions are the essense of understanding. To know something means that you can make predictions about it.

Being human and being intelligent are separate matters.

life is not about having a correct model of the world. Life is about replication.

You can't simulate a brain without first understanding what it does.

The number one question customers are asking about a business is, 'Do they care about me?

There was never anything between us and there never will be. Don't waste any more time worrying about feelings that neither of us ever had. - Jake

Rob was always trying to get inside these people, figure them out, learn their problems, provide solutions.

Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as—with just a little more effort—we could have.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. — Marie Curie

But the thing I'm finding out is some people don't really appreciate it when you'r trying to be helpful.

hopefully Mr. Blakely won't be too mad when he sees his

Sometimes friends get on each other's nerves.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.

If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil.

If I could understand everything the way I do now, I could make it all--and then it just stopped. Leaving me with that feeling like when you figure out something brilliant and profound in a dream, but you wake up, and all you remember is that you knew this amazing thing, and now it's just out of reach.

Shared documents aren't shared understanding.

scope doesn't creep; understanding grows. And

Documents usually describe what we need, but not why we need it.

Right now you should stop whatever you're doing and say this out loud: Stories get their name from how they're supposed to be used, not from what you're trying to write down.

Try showing up at your doctor's office and giving her your "requirements." Tell her the prescriptions you'd like written and the operations you'd like scheduled. If she's nice, she'll smile and say, "That's interesting; tell me where it hurts.