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Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

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

A satellite has no conscience.

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.

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game.

There's a great phrase, written in the '70s: 'The definition of today's AI is a machine that can make a perfect chess move while the room is on fire.' It really speaks to the limitations of AI. In the next wave of AI research, if we want to make more helpful and useful machines, we've got to bring back the contextual understanding.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

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

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.

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

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.

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.