Douglas Adams Quotes

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

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.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

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.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

[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.

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

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.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

The computer is a moron.

The idea [of the Quantum Computer] is to create a machine that is as intelligence as humans, and probably much more so.

Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

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.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.