Marvin Minsky Quotes

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me.

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

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

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

If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots.

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

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

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

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.

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

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

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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.

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

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

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.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.

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