Jeff Hawkins Quotes

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

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

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

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

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.

Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

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

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

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.

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

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

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.