Roy Romer Quotes

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.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

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.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have.

If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

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.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

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

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

The computer is a moron.

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.

Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.

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.