- Alan Kay
- Alan Perlis
- Alan Turing
- Diane Ackerman
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Elon Musk
- John McCarth
- Mark Cuban
- Nick Bostrom
- Pedro Domingos
- Ray Kurzweil
- Stephen Hawking
- Stuart Russell
- Terry Pratchett
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Alan Kay — computer scientist, best known for his pioneering work on OOP and windowing GUI design.
“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.”
Alan Perlis — computer scientist, the first recipient of the Turing Award.
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
Alan Turing — mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
Diane Ackerman — poet, essayist, and naturalist.
“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra — computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, and science essayist.
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky — AI researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics.
“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”
Elon Musk — business magnate and investor.
“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.”
“AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity, so let's get it right.“
John McCarthy — computer scientist and cognitive scientist, one of the founders of the discipline of AI.
“Our ultimate objective is to make programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do. We shall…say that a program has common sense if it automatically deduces for itself a sufficiently wide class of immediate consequences of anything it is told and what it already knows.”
Mark Cuban — businessman, investor, film producer, and television personality.
“I am telling you, the world’s first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives and applies it in ways we never thought of.”
Nick Bostrom — philosopher, known for his work on human enhancement ethics and superintelligence risks.
“Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.”
Pedro Domingos — researcher in machine learning known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.
“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.”
Ray Kurzweil — computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist.
“Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity — technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.”
Stephen Hawking — theoretical physicist and cosmologist.
“Success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don’t know. So, we cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI, or ignored by it and side-lined, or conceivably destroyed by it.”
Stuart Russell — computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence.
“No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all.”
Terry Pratchett — humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
The idea of creating such a collection of quotes is largely influenced by the awesome-it-quotes repository.
