Brendan Iribe Quotes

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

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

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

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

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

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 are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.

The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.

I became interested in AI in high school because I read 'Goedel, Escher, Bach,' a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how all their work in some ways fit together, and he talked about artificial intelligence. I thought 'Wow, this is what I want to be doing.'

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.