Stanley Druckenmiller Quotes

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

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

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.

Technological advances are changing what clients need, the services we provide, and how we interact with them.

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren't working?

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

I'm excited about all technology.

I'll say this: I'm not so sure 'The Jetsons' had it so wrong.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

There's something about when it gives a shockingly incorrect answer with the same chirpy HAL 9000 voice that feels so hopeful. Watson won't get discouraged, it will just try again.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

For so many in the UK, the social contract is broken - the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll reap the rewards. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies are just as capable of fixing the social contract as they are to weaken it further.

As the years went by and technology came in, I used a lot of technology.

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

We work in an industry where people invent technology to avoid what we create.

Humans violate the rules in a safe and principled way, and the reality is that autonomous vehicles in the future may have to do the same thing if they don't want to be the source of bottlenecks.