Quotes About Progress

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since