Alexander Chase Quotes

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

The future is here.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Some people think technology has the answers.

The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

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

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

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

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

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.

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.