J. K. Rowling Quotes

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

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?

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

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.

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

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

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.

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

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

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

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

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

The computer is a moron.