Fred Armisen Quotes

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

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.

I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot.

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

I am more on the side of humans than robots.

Rather than wringing our hands about robots taking over the world, smart organizations will embrace strategic automation use cases. Strategic decisions will be based on how the technology will free up time to do the types of tasks that humans are uniquely positioned to perform.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.

I know we've had AI films, but they've been quite specific in their scope. The scope of 'Humans' is a world set up where this technology is universally accepted. I haven't seen anything that's dealt with it in that multi-layered, every-layer-of-society way.

I hope people can envision a future where we as humans have robots that are alongside us, assisting in our daily lives.

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

The image of the robot is very important to us, it's very stimulating to people's imaginations.

I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.

Ultimately, our ideas about robots are not about robots. The robot is a canvas onto which we project our hopes and our dreams and our fears... they become embodiments of those hopes and dreams and fears.