Bill Budge Quotes

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

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.

Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

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

There’s not a single aspect of human life that doesn’t have the potential to be totally transformed by these technologies in the future.

Baidu's AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish. After Baidu, I am excited to continue working toward the AI transformation of our society and the use of AI to make life better for everyone.

AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more.

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

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

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

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.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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

The future is here.

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.