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" Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy. "
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" AI works really well when you couple AI in a raisin bread model. AI is the raisins, but you wrap it in a good user interface and product design, and that's the bread. If you think about raisin bread, it's not raisin bread without the raisins. Right? Then it's just bread, but it's also not raisin bread without the bread. Then it's just raisins. "
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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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You
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" 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
" 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. "
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Responsibility
Past
Life
" 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
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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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Our
Drivers
Roads
" 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'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
" The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "
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Accidents
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Autonomous
" AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use. "
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Us
Tool
" My family is my number one priority. "
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Family
My Number One
Priority
" A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.' "
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Any
Must
Off
" I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address. "
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I Can
Help
Think
" Driverless cars are a great thing. "
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Thing
Great Thing
Great
" 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
" AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours. "
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AI
How
Tool
" 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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Life
" 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
" We don't want A.I. to engage in cyberbullying, stock manipulation, or terrorist threats; we don't want the F.B.I. to release A.I. systems that entrap people into committing crimes. We don't want autonomous vehicles that drive through red lights, or worse, A.I. weapons that violate international treaties. "
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Engage
Lights
People
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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