Terry Pratchett Quotes

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Human intelligence trumps electronic or signals intelligence every time.

Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

There is no patch for stupidity.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. But, in my view, this whole field is based on a misconception. I think the brain is analog, whereas the machines are digital. They really are different. So I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

You've gotta be slightly stupid.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?