Miguel Nicolelis Quotes

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

The computer is a moron.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

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 what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

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

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

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.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.