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" Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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
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" Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy. "
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" If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI. "
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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
" My dream is to achieve AI for the common good. "
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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
Intelligence
" 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
" Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control. "
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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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Data
Own
Research
" 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
" 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
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" What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody. "
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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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" Israel is a wonderful place to grow up. "
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Place
Up
" 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
" 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
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Safety
" 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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" Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own. "
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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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Impact
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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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" 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
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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 there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data. "
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People
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" 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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Turn
Will
Life
" 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
" 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
" 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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Army
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