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" 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. "
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" 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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" I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy. "
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" The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "
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" 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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" 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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" Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants. "
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" Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. "
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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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" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "
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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'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? "
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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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" Israel is a wonderful place to grow up. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem. "
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" My family is my number one priority. "
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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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Control
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Home
" 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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" 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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" 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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" The Turing Test was a brilliant idea, but it's evolved into a competition of chatbots. "
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Test
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" 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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Own
" 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.' "
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" We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology. "
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" 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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