Kevin Pietersen Quotes

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

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

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

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

The computer is a moron.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

A man-like object

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.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.

It's hard to say how far we are down the road to our conventional understanding of artificial intelligence, but I think what we've developed so far, if it's not already consciously awake and hiding from us because it's seen what an ugly and destructive race we are, and it's trying to preserve itself, it's probably in a state of dreaming.

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.

At the end of the day, at 49 years old, it's realistic to believe that a Terminator has a heart.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.