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" The Turing Test was a brilliant idea, but it's evolved into a competition of chatbots. "
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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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" AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology. "
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" 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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" 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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" I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched. "
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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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" Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Body
" 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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" 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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" 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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" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "
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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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" 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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