“But the truth is, only a tiny percentage of people in the post-industrial world will ever end up working in software engineering, biotechnology or advanced manufacturing. Just as the behemoth machines of the industrial revolution made physical strength less necessary for humans, the information revo…”— Livia Gershon, aeon.co
“The people who say, 'Half my money spent on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half' are going to get fired. Why? Because the technology to measure it is already out there”— James Thomas, adage.com
“Even if somebody can give you a reasonable-sounding explanation for their actions, it probably is incomplete, and the same could very well be true for AI”— Jeff Clune, technologyreview.com
“The car didn’t follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it.”— Will Knight, technologyreview.com
“Someday there’ll be a robot in every house, doing the dishes, making the beds, even looking after the children while the parents work.”— Pedro Domingos, amazon.com
“Machine learning will bring about not just a new era of civilization, but a new stage in the evolution of life on Earth.”— Pedro Domingos, amazon.com
“Machine learning takes many different forms and goes by many different names: pattern recognition, statistical modeling, data mining, knowledge discovery, predictive analytics, data science, adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, and more.”— Pedro Domingos, amazon.com
“In order for A.I. systems to work, they need to be trained. And we, we humans, are their mothers and fathers. We are their study buddies. We are the ones these A.I. systems are learning from.”— Amy Webb, vocativ.com
“We can’t really predict what might happen next because superintelligent A.I. may not just think faster than humans, but in ways that are completely different. It may have motivations — feelings, even — that we cannot fathom.”— Rick Paulas, theweek.com
“In a way, AI is both closer and farther off than we imagine. AI is closer to being able to do more powerful things than most people expect — driving cars, curing diseases, discovering planets, understanding media. Those will each have a great impact on the world, but we're still figuring out what re…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“On a psychologic level, once you can speak to a system, you attribute more emotional depth to it than a computer you might interact with using text or a graphic interface.”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“Speech recognition systems have improved recently, but no AI system is good enough to understand conversational speech just yet. Speech recognition relies on both listening to what you say and predicting what you will say next, so structured speech is still much easier to understand than unstructure…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“The more context an AI has, the better it can handle open-ended requests.”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”— Eliezer Yudkowsky, intelligence.org
“The increasingly popular way to achieve this grounding these days is by joint embeddings — deep distributed representations where different modalities or perspectives on the same concept are placed very close together in a high-dimensional vector space.”— Richard Mallah, futureoflife.org
“Machine learning only works when you have data — preferably a lot of data.”— Adam Geitgey, medium.com
“Another interesting limitation of speech recognition systems -- and machine learning systems more generally -- is that they are more optimized for specific problems than most people realize. For example, understanding a person talking to a computer is subtly different problem from understanding a pe…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“Amazon Polly delivers the consistently fast response times required to support real-time, interactive dialog. You can cache and save Polly’s speech audio to replay offline or redistribute. And Polly is easy to use. You simply send the text you want converted into speech to the Polly API, and Polly i…”— Amazon, aws.amazon.com
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“'Sometimes, when I just don’t feel like looking at her, I’ll take out her vagina,’ Mills says. ‘She stays in the bedroom, and I just walk around with her pussy.’ Mills laughs hard at this. ‘Isn’t modern technology wonderful?'”— David Mills, menshealth.com