Isaac Asimov Quotes

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

The day may come when we will replace politicians with computers. Judging from some of the reasoning of politicians I've seen over the years, I know I would sooner take the logic of a computer. The machine may suffer the same lack of intelligence as some politicians, but at least there is consistency in its idiocy.

Such a machine has the advantage that it will not make mistakes because it is tired or does not feel well, or because the weather is warm.

Technology has the ability to intervene when humans fail.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there is the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, … he’s sure he can control the demon. But it doesn’t work out.

I think that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to the end of the human race.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

You're going to have driverless trucks hurtling down the highway at 80 miles an hour before you will have robots can clean up after your kid or fold his clothes.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

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

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

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.

The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.