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" 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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" Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control. "

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" My family is my number one priority. "

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

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" The Turing Test was a brilliant idea, but it's evolved into a competition of chatbots. "

" Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. "

" 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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Space

" 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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World

" Israel is a wonderful place to grow up. "

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Place

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants. "

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Science

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff - the useful from the noise - via AI-enabled algorithms. With AI, such an infrastructure would be able to identify the exact study a scientist needs from the tens of thousands on a topic. "

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Study

" Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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