Clive James Quotes

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

As for ourselves, we love our machines.

Technology is like the 666 because it controls us.

'Debug' is '2001' from Hal's perspective.

Technology is power.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Some people think technology has the answers.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Something else has happened with computers.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Robots are good at things that are structured.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.