Alan Cooper Quotes

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Computers have wonderful memories. Human memory is more fuzzy.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

I don't think enough people have accepted that the machines have already taken over. They are patiently waiting for us to catch up with them. Our world is now interdependent with the machines, and more entrepreneurs should be working on the symbiosis between the two entities.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. But, in my view, this whole field is based on a misconception. I think the brain is analog, whereas the machines are digital. They really are different. So I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.

The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.

I feel like maybe I'm going to be in with the robots because they'll see the show [Westworld] and think I'm one of them.

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.