Andrew W. Moore Quotes

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

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

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

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.

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

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

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Something else has happened with computers.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

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.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.