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" Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own. "
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Machines
Google
Facebook
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" 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. "
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You
Back
Realize
" 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. "
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Art
Science
People
" 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. "
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Boring
Talking
Talk
" 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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Mother
Tongue
Time
" AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use. "
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Good
Us
Tool
" 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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Problem
Looking
Learning
" When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data. "
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People
Data
Decisions
" If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI. "
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Believe
Killer
Everything
" 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.' "
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Friends
Much
Students
" The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "
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Accidents
Want
Autonomous
" 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. "
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Loved
Best
Baby
" 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? "
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Positive
Society
Way
" 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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Travel
Space
More
" 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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World
Short
Life
" The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking. "
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Thinking
Best
Challenge
" I love sophisticated algorithms that help consumers in a tangible way. "
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Tangible
Way
Sophisticated
" A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice. "
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People
Boredom
Dignity
" 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. "
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Say
Web
Become
" I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched. "
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I Think
Quite
Think
" 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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Think
Risks
Intellectual
" Because of their exceptional ability to automatically elicit, record, and analyze information, A.I. systems are in a prime position to acquire confidential information. "
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Position
Because
Information
" 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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Start
Say
Will
" 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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Data
Own
Research
" 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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Enough
Army
You
" Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. "
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Intelligence
Face
Automation
" My dream is to achieve AI for the common good. "
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AI
Achieve
Dream
" 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. "
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Roads
Thought
Body
" My family is my number one priority. "
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Family
My Number One
Priority
" 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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Better
World
More
" A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.' "
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Any
Must
Off