Computer Capabilities Quotes

You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that. You can’t wish it away.

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.

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. Robots are bad at pattern recognition and certainly at common sense. That's why computers can beat humans in chess but can't have even a basic conversation with a six-year-old.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

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.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

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

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

The movie that we could've finished in 2001 would've sucked. The movie that we could've finished in 2002 would've just been a disaster, even into 2003, it would've been very cobbled together, amateuristic stuff. But as we went along, we really did stumble upon some accidental themes, and with the things you could do with computers, and all that sort of stuff just sort of really accelerated into where the stuff that we could do right here at my house became - you could almost do anything.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.