Peter Singer Quotes

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

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

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.

When you start to automate, you start to do the self-driving thing, you make it much more efficient. When these cars go into self-driving, you start to become a robotics company.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

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

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

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.

We live in a world where all the parts of a robot are very cheap, yet we don't have a lot of robots. And the thing that has been missing has been good enough Artifical Intelligence.

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way.

I'm a firm believer that autonomous driving is coming.