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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" My dream is to achieve AI for the common good. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" Driverless cars are a great thing. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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