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" 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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" 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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" 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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" A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice. "
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" 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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" 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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" The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat and tears. It's not the kind of thing that suddenly takes off like 'Her' or in 'Ex Machina.' "
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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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You
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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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Hollywood
People
World
" 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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" 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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" 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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School
" A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.' "
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" The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "
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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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" 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
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" Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants. "
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AI
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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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Problem
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Learning
" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "
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Globalization
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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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" 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
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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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" Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI. "
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Research
Deep
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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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" 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. "
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" My family is my number one priority. "
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Family
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" Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers. "
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" Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. "
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Everybody
" It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil. "
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" 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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" 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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