Cliff Chiang Quotes

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

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

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

I want to be a machine.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

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

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

It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

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

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

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.

I actually learned about Cyborg through the cartoon shows, and I think that's how most people learn about Cyborg.