Pranav Mistry Quotes

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

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

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

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

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

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

AI-assisted driving is a perfect platform for advancing fundamental human-centric artificial intelligence research while also producing practical applications.

My life project is humanizing technology: making technology more real and bringing it back into human interactions.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

As AI becomes the new infrastructure, flowing invisibly through our daily lives like the water in our faucets, we must understand its short- and long-term effects and know that it is safe for all to use.

I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address.

We are more like vehicles, a part of our mensch machine, our man-machine. Sometimes we play the music, sometimes the music plays us, sometimes... it plays.