Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Oren Etzioni

Work

Challenges

Safety

Related Quotes:

" We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology. "

" 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.' "

" The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Because of their exceptional ability to automatically elicit, record, and analyze information, A.I. systems are in a prime position to acquire confidential information. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched. "

" I love sophisticated algorithms that help consumers in a tangible way. "

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

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

" Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI. "

" 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. "

" My family is my number one priority. "

" 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. "

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

Oren Etzioni

How

Tool

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Oren Etzioni

Better

World