Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

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.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

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.

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

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

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.

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

The future is here.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Some people think technology has the answers.

The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

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

Technology has the ability to intervene when humans fail.