ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTES V

quotations about artificial intelligence

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Myth: "We will never create AI with human-like intelligence."

Reality: We already have computers that match or exceed human capacities in games like chess and Go, stock market trading, and conversations. Computers and the algorithms that drive them can only get better, and it'll only be a matter of time before they excel at nearly any human activity.

GEORGE DVORSKY

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In an extreme, horrifying case, humans upload their brains, or slowly replace the parts of their brains underlying consciousness with silicon chips, and in the end, only non-human animals remain to experience the world. This would be an unfathomable loss. Even the slightest chance that this could happen should give us reason to think carefully about AI consciousness.

SUSAN SCHNEIDER

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Just because a machine passes the Turing Test--in which a computer is indistinguishable from a human--that doesn't mean it's conscious. To us, an advanced AI may give the impression of consciousness, but it will be no more aware of itself than a rock or a calculator.

GEORGE DVORSKY

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Brains and computers work very differently. Both compute, but only one understands--and there are some very compelling reasons to believe that this is not going to change. It appears that there is a more technical obstacle that stands in the way of Strong A.I. ever becoming a reality.

BOBBY AZARIAN

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The history of AI research, which can be traced back 58 years to a conference at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where the phrase was coined, has been littered with false dawns. If the latest hopes also fall short, it won't be because of a lack of ambition or effort.

RICHARD WATERS

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One could argue that an AI system would not only imitate human intelligence, but also "correct" it, and would also scale to arbitrarily large problems. But we are now in the realm of science fiction.

MICHAEL JORDAN

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Computers can already hold a massive amount of instantly retrievable data in a manner that puts most humans to shame, but getting them to actually display intelligence is an entirely different challenge. A team of researchers from Northwestern University just made a huge stride toward that goal with a computational model that actually outperforms the average American adult in a standard intelligence test.

MIKE WEHNER

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The year 2017 arrives and we humans are still in charge. Whew! The machines haven't taken over yet, but they are gaining on us.

EDITORIAL BOARD

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Is your toothbrush really artificially intelligent? Is your washing machine? No.

JAMES VINCENT

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Measuring progress in AI is not easy. The layperson usually cites the Turing test, developed by Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing in 1950. It focuses on whether a computer can convince a human in a blind test that they are talking to another human. But that test, says Shanahan, is more about "tricking" people through mimicry than developing AI genuinely capable of learning.

ROB DAVIES

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Some are trying to build machines whose behavior is indistinguishable from humans. That was the original group. IHMC is a reaction to that as we're not into building artificial humans. They are in good supply, already. And, by the way, the term artificial is a singularly poor name. Perhaps enhanced, augmented or amplified intelligence would be more apropos. Artificial implies something fake.

KEN FORD

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Artificial intelligence has already provoked a public debate in recent months about a different kind of risk. This has centred on how it might wipe out human work, as clever computers and the robots they make possible take over most types of human employment. But the bigger issue may be whether AI wipes out mankind itself.

RICHARD WATERS

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Less expensive, more abundant data storage, increased processing power and advances in deep-learning technology could lower the cost of artificial intelligence and make it possible for machines to learn with minimal programming from humans.

STEVE NORTON

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The road to true artificial intelligence is not paved with a single discipline, but rather a collection of specialized subject matters, techniques and theories that together interact to create some form of intelligence.

CHRISTOFFER O. HERNOES

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It's striking how many of the world's leading scientific thinkers -- Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Tim Berners-Lee and the late Stephen Hawking -- all worry that an AI will regard us as annoying bugs.

SEAN MONCRIEFF

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Given the rapid pace of research, I expect AI to be able to create new personalized media, such as music according to your taste. Imagine a future music service that doesn't just play existing songs you might like, but continually generates new songs just for you.

JAN KAUTZ

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We will see AI emerging as a major and a powerful tool in both the detection and investigation of malice and in the construction of systems resilient to attack. But what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Cyberhackers can use AI too and so the cyber-arms war will continue.

JOHN CLARK

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The strong comeback for AI after a long and extended hiatus provides a lesson in the sociology of science, underscoring the need to put forward ideas that challenge the technological status quo.

YOSHUA BENGIO

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If we succeed in building human equivalent AI and if that AI acquires a full understanding of how it works, and if it then succeeds in improving itself to produce super-intelligent AI, and if that super-AI, accidentally or maliciously, starts to consume resources, and if we fail to pull the plug, then, yes, we may well have a problem.

ALAN WINFIELD

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Yeah, I know you're a special flower and everything, but the work you do is either already automatable or will be very soon. How soon? Most jobs will be done by robots within 30 years, says professor Moshe Vardi of Rice University, leading to unemployment rates greater than 50%. That might sound bad, but many academics studying the field believe that technological unemployment will open the door to a future where work is something people do for pleasure, not out of necessity. Proposals such as universal basic income are the beginnings of a societal support structure that could eventually allow this to become a reality.

DUNCAN GEERE

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