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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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" 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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Opportunities
Truck
Children
" 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 only rollercoasters I get on are startups. "
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Only
Startups
" Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride. "
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Sometime
Amazing
Everybody
" When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data. "
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People
Data
Decisions
" Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy. "
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People
Live
Work
" 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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Risk
Impact
Autonomous
" I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us. "
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Dangerous
Empower
Question
" We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology. "
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Help
Nature
Out
" 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
You
Home
" 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
" 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
" 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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Research
Search
Study
" My family is my number one priority. "
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Family
My Number One
Priority
" 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
" The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking. "
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Thinking
Best
Challenge
" 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
" 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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People
Hard
Understand
" 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
" Israel is a wonderful place to grow up. "
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Grow Up
Place
Up
" 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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Hunting
Food
People
" 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. "
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Data
Working
Small
" Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automatically look at a bunch of different stores and see where can you get the best price on a computer or some such thing, so that was the motivation. "
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You
Motivation
Best
" 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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Intelligence
Goals
Own
" 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
" AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours. "
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AI
How
Tool
" 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. "
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Work
Challenges
Safety
" 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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Doing
Intelligence
School
" 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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Understanding
Language
Intelligence
" 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
Intelligence