Words matter. These are the best Oren Etzioni Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.
It’s much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.
A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood ‘Terminator’ scenario.
Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy.
I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.’ My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It’s a tool that’s going to empower us.
Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem.
I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address.
Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let’s play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population.
AI is neither good nor evil. It’s a tool. It’s a technology for us to use.
Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It’s such an amazing ride.
Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.
The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.
The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.
I’m trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them.
At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It’s not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it’s not how most of us get our food.
Israel is a wonderful place to grow up.
It’s hard for me to speculate about what motivates somebody like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk to talk so extensively about AI. I’d have to guess that talking about black holes gets boring after awhile – it’s a slowly developing topic.
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.
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.
All these things that we’ve contemplated, whether it’s space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems.
Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of scientific thought and the tools for searching through it.
A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable ‘off switch.’
My family is my number one priority.
A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.
People thrive on genuine connections – not with machines, but with each other. You don’t want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are – and will continue to be – best at.
AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.
In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly shared by the builders of AI software.
There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.
Driverless cars are a great thing.
I love sophisticated algorithms that help consumers in a tangible way.
I don’t think that all the coal miners – or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks – they’re all going to go and become web designers and programmers.
The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat and tears. It’s not the kind of thing that suddenly takes off like ‘Her’ or in ‘Ex Machina.’
If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.
Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that’s a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven’t been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.
