Germaine Greer Quotes

I think artificial intelligence will likely change the character of warfare, and I believe whoever masters it first will dominate on the battlefield for many, many, many years.

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.

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

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.

I don't think Cyborg has ever felt the aggressiveness and the power that I will bring to her.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

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.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

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

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Society is now at a crucial juncture in determining how to deploy AI-based technologies in ways that promote rather than hinder democratic values such as freedom, equality, and transparency.

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

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

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

The role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of the horse in agricultural production.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.