Isaac Yeffet Quotes

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

There's a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I've certainly become more and more aware of that.

The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Is the human race a universal constructor?

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman.

The best machinery in the world has to be handled by intelligent people.

Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

I believe technology serves us best when it gives us more time to do things that are uniquely human. This includes activities that are enjoyable, creative, and productive.

You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.

Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

The Adia application has been co-created by the Adecco Group and the global technology leader, Infosys. It covers the full cycle of recruiting, matching, invoicing, and payrolling with state-of-the-art functionalities such as feedback and rating and geolocalization.

An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.

The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.