I remain a technical optimist… the problem is not artificial intelligence, it's natural stupidity.
— Sir Nigel Shadbolt“I came away from space flight realising that I don't have enough faith to be an atheist. Life is so amazing. When you look at the universe and the forces of nature, there just has to be a creator.”— Terry Virts
NASA Astronaut & International Space Station Commander
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My fear has never been the machines waking up and deciding to do away with us, but rather that we- in our own bone headed way- deploy systems inappropriately, or without thinking through the unintended consequences that may occur.
— Sir Nigel ShadboltEconomics is like artificial intelligence, it's not really there… there's no physical invisible hand…. It's about people interacting with people against a social order, a set of ethics, principles and practices.
— Jaron LanierPioneer of Virtual Reality & Critic of Social Media
The ultimate goal is to be in a state of flow with machines. Think about people working with horses, or herding cattle with a dog, they are examples of interactions with other intelligent creatures in a way which is fluid and allows us to achieve something we couldn't do ourselves.
— Dr. Mark SagarCreator of AI baby "Baby X" & facial animation technology pioneer
We take ethics very seriously – and it's important to never fool the user. It must be clear that you are dealing with a digital person, not a real person, and at the same time you cannot create any dependency.
— Dr. Mark SagarCreator of AI baby "Baby X" & facial animation technology pioneer
When we create digital faces, they have to look and behave organically- they have to trigger that part of your brain that starts to think about what that 'person' would be like.
— Dr. Mark SagarCreator of AI baby "Baby X" & facial animation technology pioneer
While people have been worried about AI being embedded in humanoid robots from the science fiction world, our lives have been shaped and influenced by AI which makes tens of billions of decisions each day about what we see, and how we communicate.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
There's a delicate balance between making sure our values are encoded in these technologies as they come out- and not constraining them so much that we lose the technological race to other nations who don't hold our values.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
We haven't really had a technology like AI in the history of technological development – the closest analogy would be the movable type printing press, which came to the fore at the beginning of the enlightenment, some five hundred years ago.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
AI has been an area of technology for many decades, but the advances of the past five-years show us why this is one of the major technology events of the last several centuries.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
The smartest being on planet Earth is life itself. Life creates with abundance, not with scarcity. Life does not want to kill the tigers for the deer to survive. Life basically says more deer, more tigers, more everything.
— Mo GawdatFormer Google Executive & Author of "Solve for Happy
The only reason we are the master of anything today is because of our intelligence. We're not the strongest species on the planet. Without our intelligence, we're quite irrelevant. When they are smarter than we are, it is wishful thinking that they will continue to be connected to us.
— Mo GawdatFormer Google Executive & Author of "Solve for Happy
These are technologies that are autonomous in many, many ways. They are independent in many, many ways – they have free will. They can replicate. And that makes a difference because then we teach them how to learn, but we have no idea what they will do with that ability to learn.
— Mo GawdatFormer Google Executive & Author of "Solve for Happy
Humanity has the arrogance to believe that our intelligence is the only form of intelligence. Of course, we're arrogant enough to believe that we are the most intelligent being on the planet. We don't really know what intelligence is.
— Mo GawdatFormer Google Executive & Author of "Solve for Happy
We quickly adopt technologies we see potential in and dismiss those that don't seem promising. Over the last five years, we have heavily invested in Artificial Intelligence, which has brought immense benefits to us and our clients.
— Ajaz AhmedFor instance, while AI can generate images that appear real, it cannot create convincing backgrounds that can be geolocated, since they do not correspond to actual places.
— Eliot HigginsFounder of Bellingcat, open-source investigation journalism network