Ted Nelson Quotes

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

I'm not a robot.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

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

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

The computer is a moron.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.