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" AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use. "
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" A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice. "
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" I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address. "
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" When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data. "
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" Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control. "
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" The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat and tears. It's not the kind of thing that suddenly takes off like 'Her' or in 'Ex Machina.' "
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" A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research. "
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Research
" Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country. "
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" 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
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" 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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Challenges
Safety
" 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
" 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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Working
Small
" 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
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Baby
" 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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" 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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" A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.' "
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Off
" 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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" Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. "
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" Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. "
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" Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI. "
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" Because of their exceptional ability to automatically elicit, record, and analyze information, A.I. systems are in a prime position to acquire confidential information. "
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" What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody. "
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" I'm not a big fan of self-driving cars where there's no steering wheel or brake pedal. Knowing what I know about computer vision and AI, I'd be pretty uncomfortable with that. But I am a fan of a combined system - one that can brake for you if you fall asleep at the wheel, for example. "
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" At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most of us get our food. "
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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
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" Driverless cars are a great thing. "
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Thing
Great Thing
Great
" The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "
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Accidents
Want
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" If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI. "
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" 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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" It's hard for me to speculate about what motivates somebody like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk to talk so extensively about AI. I'd have to guess that talking about black holes gets boring after awhile - it's a slowly developing topic. "
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Talk