Rodney Brooks Quotes

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

The tools and technologies we've developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

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

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

I think that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to the end of the human race.

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.

The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.