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" AI works really well when you couple AI in a raisin bread model. AI is the raisins, but you wrap it in a good user interface and product design, and that's the bread. If you think about raisin bread, it's not raisin bread without the raisins. Right? Then it's just bread, but it's also not raisin bread without the bread. Then it's just raisins. "

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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. "

" Israel is a wonderful place to grow up. "

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" 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.' "

" When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data. "

" A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.' "

" 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? "

" Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence. "

" A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario. "

" We don't want A.I. to engage in cyberbullying, stock manipulation, or terrorist threats; we don't want the F.B.I. to release A.I. systems that entrap people into committing crimes. We don't want autonomous vehicles that drive through red lights, or worse, A.I. weapons that violate international treaties. "

" I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address. "

" My family is my number one priority. "

" 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. "

" Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers. "

" The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking. "

" 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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" AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use. "

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" 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. "

" 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.' "

" AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours. "

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" A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice. "

" 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. "

" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "

" 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. "

" Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions. "

" 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. "

" Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world. "