Ray Kurzweil Quotes

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

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.

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.

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

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

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

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.

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.

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

I think that AI will lead to a low cost and better quality life for millions of people. Like electricity, it's a possibility to build a wonderful society. Also, right now, I don't see a clear path for AI to surpass human-level intelligence.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.