The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.
I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.
In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.
The Analytical Engine has no pretentions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it had no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.
The Computer was invented and fabricated by Charles Babbage and was called an “Analytical Engine” by him.
Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.
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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.
The tools and technologies we've developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.
AI as a technology is complex, of course, but the capabilities and benefits of AI aren't hard to understand.
As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.
And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.
Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.
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.