Matt Haig Quotes

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

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

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.

A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario.

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

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

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

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

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

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.

I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.

I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.

What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that are central to the concept of our series as a whole. But the major lens that we will have is going to be the real world.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

It's only a matter of time before machinery becomes sentient. It's going to happen because we're already slaves to all of it.