Ada Lovelace Quotes

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

The Analytical Engine has no pretentions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it had no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other or, you know, sift through a thousand documents. So there's lots of things that machines are better at including in mental task than us. There's many more that they're not as good at, but the direction is pretty obvious and the progress is clear.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.

Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.

The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.