Michael J. Saylor Quotes

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world and the environment better, it can make life so much better for many of us. Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery I think AI has the potential to free up humanity from a lot of the mental drudgery.

Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.

Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have.

I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

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

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

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.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

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

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.

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

A lot was happening in A.I. But I also realized it wasn't clear what Salesforce's role in A.I. was. That's when we started acquiring quite a few artificial intelligence companies, maybe a dozen.

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.

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.