David Grinspoon Quotes

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

With Cyborg, this is a winnable fight for me.

We see incredible opportunity to solve some of the biggest social challenges we have by combining high-performance computing and AI - such as climate change and more.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where in fact the majority of the intelligence out there is not biological. That would be my argument.

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.