Programmed Behavior Quotes

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

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

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

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.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.

The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

A satellite has no conscience.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

I tell myself I bear witness. The real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.