Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

Search is an unsolved problem.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

I'm not a robot.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.

Algorithm

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Technology has the ability to intervene when humans fail.

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It’s really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That’s a marketing trick. It’s also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

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

Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it.

I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

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

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.

Without your data, Google couldn't pursue the dream of trying to figure out what you're really thinking when you're asking a question, of trying to discern, from the imprecision of your language, the exact answer you're looking for.

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it.