Joshua Foer Quotes

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

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

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

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

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

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

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

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

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

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

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

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

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

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

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.

We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.

In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.