Bruce Sterling Quotes

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

[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.

The computer is a moron.

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.

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.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

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

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

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.

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

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

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.

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.'

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

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.