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" A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario. "
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" The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game. "
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" When you have a large amount of data that is labeled so a computer knows what it means, and you have a large amount of computing power, and you're trying to find patterns in that data, we've found that deep learning is unbeatable. "
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" AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours. "
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" Driverless cars are a great thing. "
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Great
" I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us. "
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Empower
Question
" It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand. "
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People
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" Things that are so hard for people, like playing championship-level Go and poker, have turned out to be relatively easy for the machines. Yet at the same time, the things that are easiest for a person - like making sense of what they see in front of them, speaking in their mother tongue - the machines really struggle with. "
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" In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software. "
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Past
Life
" All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems. "
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Travel
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" People thrive on genuine connections - not with machines, but with each other. You don't want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are - and will continue to be - best at. "
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Loved
Best
Baby
" I'd like to make a fundamental impact on one of the most exciting, intelligent questions of all time. Can we use software and hardware to build intelligence into a machine? Can that machine help us solve cancer? Can that machine help us solve climate change? "
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Time
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" Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions. "
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Science
Growth
Environmental
" One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.' "
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Friends
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" A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice. "
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People
Boredom
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" To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations. "
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" Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way? "
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" I became interested in AI in high school because I read 'Goedel, Escher, Bach,' a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how all their work in some ways fit together, and he talked about artificial intelligence. I thought 'Wow, this is what I want to be doing.' "
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Doing
Intelligence
School
" I like to say I've been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started working on it. "
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Data
Working
Small
" The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions. "
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Technology
Find
Better
" I think it's important for us to have a rule that if a system is really an AI bot, it ought to be labeled as such. 'AI inside.' It shouldn't pretend to be a person. It's bad enough to have a person calling you and harassing you, or emailing you. What if they're bots? An army of bots constantly haranguing you - that's terrible. "
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Enough
Army
You
" Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. "
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Sometime
Amazing
Everybody
" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "
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Globalization
American
Automation
" Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. "
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Intelligence
Face
Automation
" My family is my number one priority. "
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Family
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" Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own. "
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Machines
Google
Facebook
" Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI. "
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Research
Deep
Intelligence
" I love sophisticated algorithms that help consumers in a tangible way. "
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Tangible
Way
Sophisticated
" An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science. "
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Art
Science
People
" Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers. "
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Our
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Roads
" Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called 'AI complete,' meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve artificial intelligence. "
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