Marvin Minsky Quotes

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

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

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.

I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched.

Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.

Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

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.

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

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

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

The creature has been exalted above its creators

We do not ride upon the railroad. It rides upon us.

I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me.

A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario.