Paul Buchheit Quotes

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.

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

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.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

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 believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.

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.

The invention of email evolved from a challenge to solve a real world problem.

The day of the android has dawned.

It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'

I believe that augmented reality will be the biggest technological revolution that happens in our lifetimes.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.

'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.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me.