Nick Bostrom Quotes

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.

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.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.

'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day there could be machines that are more intelligent than we are.

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.

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

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

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

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

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

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.

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

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

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.

I'm not a robot.