Miguel Nicolelis Quotes

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

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.

Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

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.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

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.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.