Steve Jurvetson Quotes

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

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

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

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.

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

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

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.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

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

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

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

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.

It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

We can't stop the development of smarter and smarter artificial intelligences. So our alternative is to make ourselves smarter so that we always stay one step ahead.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.