K. Eric Drexler Quotes

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Google’s vision is tools that will do things for you.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

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.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

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

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

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

We live in a world where all the parts of a robot are very cheap, yet we don't have a lot of robots. And the thing that has been missing has been good enough Artifical Intelligence.

The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

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.

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

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.