China Mieville Quotes

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

Data helps solve problems.

Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.

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.

The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.