Trevor Paglen Quotes

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

AI - not so some kind of far-off thing. It's part of our lives now, from your phone to everything you do. It makes our lives easier in a lot of ways.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.