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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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" Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "
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" Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants. "
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" My dream is to achieve AI for the common good. "
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" AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI. "
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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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" 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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" 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 biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "
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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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" The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking. "
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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 think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address. "
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" Infrastructure investment in science is an investment in jobs, in health, in economic growth and environmental solutions. "
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" 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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" I'm not so worried about super-intelligence and 'Terminator' scenarios. Frankly I think those are quite farfetched. "
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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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" 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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