Technology & Innovation: Artificial Intelligence Quotes

Discover concise and thought-provoking quotations that capture the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. From pioneering visions to practical applications, these selections reflect how AI shapes creativity, productivity, and decision-making. Use them for reflection, study, or inspiration across technology and innovation topics, including ethics, human-machine collaboration, and the future of work. Each quote aims to spark balanced curiosity about opportunities and challenges in intelligent systems.

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"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, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

Edsger Dijkstra

"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too"

Eugene Wigner, Physicist

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

Alan Turing

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

Alan Turing

"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

Alan Turing

"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

Alan Turing

"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 Kay, Scientist

Alan Kay

"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that"

Larry Page, Businessman

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'"

Ronald Graham, Mathematician

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past"

Norbert Wiener, Mathematician

"We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer"

Vance Packard, Writer

"When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project"

Vernor Vinge, Writer

"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"We're at a point now where we've built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

Alan Perlis

"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"Robots... I think that is a hot topic"

Bill Budge, Businessman

Bill Budge

"The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice"

Bill Budge, Businessman

Bill Budge

"We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'"

Nicholas Negroponte, Businessman

"I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

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