Clara Shih Quotes

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

The day may come when we will replace politicians with computers. Judging from some of the reasoning of politicians I've seen over the years, I know I would sooner take the logic of a computer. The machine may suffer the same lack of intelligence as some politicians, but at least there is consistency in its idiocy.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Technology has the ability to intervene when humans fail.

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.

As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.

We're making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing.