Human Comparison Quotes

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

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.

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.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.

Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

I love a tree more than a man.

Different horses have different personalities. They're just like people.

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.