Jenna Wortham Quotes

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was 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.

I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

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.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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

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.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

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

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

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

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

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