Freeman Dyson Quotes

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

I don't think enough people have accepted that the machines have already taken over. They are patiently waiting for us to catch up with them. Our world is now interdependent with the machines, and more entrepreneurs should be working on the symbiosis between the two entities.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.