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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
Dignity
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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
" My family is my number one priority. "
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Family
My Number One
Priority
" 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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Start
Say
Will
" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "
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Globalization
American
Automation
" When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data. "
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People
Data
Decisions
" Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let's play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population. "
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Opportunities
Truck
Children
" 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
" I don't think that all the coal miners - or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks - they're all going to go and become web designers and programmers. "
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Say
Web
Become
" Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. "
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Sometime
Amazing
Everybody
" Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants. "
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Assistants
AI
Science
" AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours. "
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AI
How
Tool
" 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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Mother
Tongue
Time
" 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
Much
Students
" 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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Responsibility
Past
Life
" 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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You
Trying
Power
" We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology. "
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Help
Nature
Out
" If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation. "
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You
Back
Realize
" When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways. "
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Save
Accidents
You
" I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched. "
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I Think
Quite
Think
" 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
Space
More
" Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These technologies gather unprecedented data streams leading to formidable challenges around privacy, profiling, manipulation, and personal safety. "
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Work
Challenges
Safety
" To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly. "
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Think
Risks
Intellectual
" 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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Intelligence
Goals
Own
" I'm trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them. "
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Better
World
More
" It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil. "
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Turn
Will
Life
" 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
" Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automatically look at a bunch of different stores and see where can you get the best price on a computer or some such thing, so that was the motivation. "
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You
Motivation
Best
" The Turing Test was a brilliant idea, but it's evolved into a competition of chatbots. "
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Brilliant
Test
Idea
" 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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Hollywood
People
World
" Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of scientific thought and the tools for searching through it. "
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Roads
Thought
Body