Welcome to our curated compilation of reflective quotes about Artificial Intelligence (AI). From varying opinions on its potential to warnings about its ethical misgivings, these quotes offer insights into the matters arising from AI and its implications for society and mankind as a whole.
- “Robots are not going to replace humans, they are going to make their jobs much more humane. Difficult, demeaning, demanding, dangerous, dull – these are the jobs robots will be taking.” – Sabine Hauert
- “AI is neither good nor evil. It’s a tool. It’s a technology for us to use.” – Oren Etzioni
- “Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.” – Ray Kurzweil
- “The tools and technologies we’ve developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.” – Fei-Fei Li
- “A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI’s will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.” – Ray Kurzweil
- “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” – Stephen Hawking
- “Artificial intelligence is the new electricity.” – Andrew Ng
- “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” – Edsger W. Dijkstra
- “Artificial intelligence is not a product of gods; we are the gods who will shape it.” – Amit Ray
- “The day healthcare can fully embrace AI is the day we have a revolution in terms of cutting costs and improving care.” – Fei-Fei Li
- What we’re talking about here is artificial consciousness—consciousness in a machine. Can that be achieved?” – Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
- “We should fear the day when machines start to think like humans. It’s the day they become better than us at everything.” – Elon Musk
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
- “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.” – Alan Turing
- “The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.” – B.F. Skinner
- “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” – Sydney J. Harris
- “The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” – Bill Gates
- “The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity.” – Marijn Haverbeke
- “The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.” – Bill Gates
- “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.” – Larry Page
- “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race … .It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” — Stephen Hawking
- “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.” —Elon Musk
- “Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.” —Sebastian Thrun
- “Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” – Nick Bostrom
