Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

The computer is a moron.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

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.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

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

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.

Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.

The tools and technologies we've developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.

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 got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

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