Rudy Rucker Quotes

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

The computer is a moron.

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

The idea [of the Quantum Computer] is to create a machine that is as intelligence as humans, and probably much more so.

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.

We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.

'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day there could be machines that are more intelligent than we are.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.