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Artificial Intelligence Researcher Inspirational Quotes (451)

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The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
Jaron Lanier
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The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.
John Searle
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The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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There is light in the world, and it is us!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.
Seymour Papert
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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
Jaron Lanier
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In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.
Jaron Lanier
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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
Joshua Lederberg
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Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
Seymour Papert
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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
Marvin Minsky
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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
Jaron Lanier
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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil
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The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
Alan Turing
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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
Jaron Lanier
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Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.
Ray Kurzweil
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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
Marvin Minsky
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A fundie claimed God invented science. All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?
Graham Kendall
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My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.
Peter Norvig
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Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
Daphne Koller
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There is no success or failure in Nature.
John Searle
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I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
Sebastian Thrun
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It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.
Jaron Lanier
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A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.
Nils John Nilsson
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