Sean Parker Quotes

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

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.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

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

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally or immediately distributed, and late followers learn from the reactions and dilemmas of those who had initially encountered the disruptive change.

Technology is not destiny.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

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

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

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.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

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