Alexander Mamut Quotes

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that are central to the concept of our series as a whole. But the major lens that we will have is going to be the real world.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot.

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way.

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.

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.