artificial intelligence

• Machine consciousness refers to attempts by those who design and analyse informational machines to apply their methods to various ways of understanding consciousness and to examine the possible role of consciousness in informational machines.

  — Igor Aleksander

• AI was the futuristic topic that almost no one really appeared to understand but everyone was discussing

  — Fareed Zakaria

• If these creatures are not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?

  — Richard Dawkins

• The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

  — Eliezer Yudkowsky

• To understand... mind, we have to ask how a system capable of constructing has to be built...

  — Joscha Bach

• The use case for AI is work that should not have been done.

  — David Gerard

• Whenever we write an axiom, a critic can say that the axiom is true only in a certain context. With a little ingenuity the critic can usually devise a more general context in which the precise form of the axiom doesn't hold. [...] There simply isn't a most general context.

  — John McCarthy

• Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.

  — Saul Gorn

• Intelligence is so dangerous; be it human intelligence or machine intelligence. Intelligence is dangerous.

  — George Hotz

• Seekers after the glitter of intelligence are misguided in trying to cast it in the base metal of computing.

  — Terry Winograd

• Actual AI is written with computer code such as Python or C++. “Super-intelligent AI” is written using PowerPoint slides.

  — Robert J. Marks II

• Neural Computing is the study of networks of adaptable nodes which through a process of learning from task examples, store experiential knowledge and make it available for use.

  — Igor Aleksander

• I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans.

  — Claude Shannon

• Intelligence is becoming cheap as tap water.

  — Jensen Huang

• The time may come when a greatly expanded Cyc will underlie countless software applications. But reaching that goal could easily take another two decades.

  — Douglas B. Lenat

• I cannot imagine healthcare without a human physician in the loop.

  — Regina Barzilay

• Step one, solve intelligence; step two, use it to solve everything else.

  — Demis Hassabis

• In order to understand bird flight, we have to understand aerodynamics; only then does the structure of feathers and the different shapes of bird's wings make sense.

  — David Marr

• We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game nor whether the computers at present available would do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would do well.

  — Alan Turing

• The primitives of a representation are the most elementary units of shape information available in a representation.

  — David Marr