Neill Blomkamp Quotes

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

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

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

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.

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.

Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.