Machine Superiority Quotes

Give civilized man time to gather all his machines about him, and he will no doubt easily beat the savage; but if you would see a still more unequal contest, set them together naked and unarmed, and you will soon see the advantage of having all our forces constantly at our disposal, of being always prepared for every event

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.