Hikaru Nakamura Quotes

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.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

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

Computers have changed the world of chess.

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.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

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

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

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

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

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

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

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

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

Data is going to be dynamic... and, combined with the performance of computing that allows for artificial intelligence to be applied, is going to bring all kinds of insights and additives to enhance everyday life.