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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning... cell therapy, immunotherapy. There's just a constant stream of investment ideas we could pursue better in that fashion.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

The computer is a moron.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

We think that computer models represent reality especially if we developed the models.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world and the environment better, it can make life so much better for many of us. Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery I think AI has the potential to free up humanity from a lot of the mental drudgery.

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.

In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.