Paul Allen Quotes

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.

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.

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

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

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

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

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

AI-assisted driving is a perfect platform for advancing fundamental human-centric artificial intelligence research while also producing practical applications.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.

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.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.