Jaan Tallinn Quotes

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

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.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

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.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

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 do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

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.

Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

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.