Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Ogden Nash: Preparing to overwhelm
‘I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.’ —Ogden Nash.
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Jeff Hawkins: Representation
“The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.” —Jeff Hawkins.
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Mark Zukerberg: Arguing against AI
“Whenever I hear people saying AI is going to hurt people in the future I think, yeah, technology can generally always be used for good and bad and you need to be careful about how you build it … if you’re arguing against AI then you’re arguing against safer cars that aren’t going to have…
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G K Chesterton: Wrong arguments on right side
“I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.” —G K Chesterton.
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Konstantin Stanislavski: Flee from it
“Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.” —Konstantin Stanislavski.
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Miley Cyrus: Much easier to know
“It’s so much easier to know who you are when there aren’t a thousand people telling you who they think you are.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Areva Martin: Monetize your appearances
“The key is to monetize your appearances so you don’t fall into the trap of having thousands of followers but no revenue. It’s easy to be famous but broke.” —Areva Martin, Make It Rain!: How to Use the Media to Revolutionize Your Business & Brand.
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Daniel Kahneman: Heuristic biases
“By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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David Cameron: Done to people
“There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.” —David Cameron.
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Indra Nooyi: Assume positive intent
“When you assume negative intent, you’re angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.” —Indra Nooyi.
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Joseph Sobran: Rhetoric of liberty
“The doctrine that the genetically unique human being in the womb may be killed at another’s whim, however this doctrine is disguised in the rhetoric of liberty, is a false and self-contradictory conception of freedom. It is like speaking of the liberty of the slave owner.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Rihanna: Jacket
“More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.” —Rihanna.
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Alain Badiou: Serenity in love
“There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.” —Alain Badiou.
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Carl Sagan: Not all laughed at are geniuses
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” —Carl Sagan.
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James Woods: Narcissism
“The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement – particularly men, I don’t know why, maybe it’s the testosterone – I think it’s narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.” —James Woods.
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John O’Connor: Abortion
“What is Abortion? Do you think it’s the taking of innocent human life or don’t you? If you do, then translate it: How can we talk about a rational foreign policy or the horrors of nuclear war if we hold the position that you can take innocent human life?” —Archbishop John O’Connor.
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Sebastian Kurz: Gets better each passing day
“We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don’t have to despair just because you’re young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.” —Sebastian Kurz.
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Joseph Sobran: Abortion
“Abortion can’t be portrayed as the cutting up of a living human being. It has to be presented abstractly…The gross act is etherealized into an “issue” pitting civic-minded people against the boors. No pictures, please. Only vulgar pro-lifers would want to force anyone to watch.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Peter Kreeft: Abortion
‘Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the Eucharist. That’s why it uses the same holy words, “This is my body,” with the blasphemous opposite meaning.’ —Peter Kreeft
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY: Different timescale
‘The AI runs on a different timescale than you do; by the time your neurons finish thinking the words “I should do something” you have already lost.’ —ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY, Global Catastrophic Risks.
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Kevin Drum: It’s coming anyway
‘It really doesn’t matter if artificial intelligence is distracting us from whatever you think the “real” problem is. It’s coming anyway.’ —KEVIN DRUM, “Artificial Intelligence Is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not”, Mother Jones, February 6, 2017.
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Elon Musk: Potentially more dangerous than nukes
“We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” —ELON MUSK, Twitter post, August 2, 2014.
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John Clark: Sauce
“We will see AI emerging as a major and a powerful tool in both the detection and investigation of malice and in the construction of systems resilient to attack. But what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Cyberhackers can use AI too and so the cyber-arms war will continue.” —JOHN CLARK, “Why…
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Patrick Henry: Developed for specificities
“Ever noticed how DeepMind or Watson challenge and surpass human understanding? Well, these seemingly intelligent engines are not as intelligent as they appear. See, they were developed for specificities and cannot figure out anything outside of what they are programmed for.” —PATRICK HENRY, “Just how Artificial is Artificial Intelligence?”, TrendinTech, December 16, 2016.
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Mark Woods: Can a robot sin?
“As artificial intelligence (AI) catches up with human intelligence and machines become more and more autonomous, roboticists are increasingly asking about ethics. If a machine is capable of making a decision, what are the moral principles that guide that decision? Can a robot have a conscience? And if so, how is that conscience to be…
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Deepak Agarwal: Not perfect
“The thing to realize about artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms is they’re not perfect. The question is which errors are more costly than others. When you’re constructing an algorithm, you tell them this error is okay, but not that costly. But if you make this error, then it’s a million times more costly than…
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Mark Woods: Moral creatures
“The worst thing we could do would be to imagine that machines can do all our thinking for us; they can’t. We are moral creatures, and we can’t avoid that responsibility.” —MARK WOODS, “Can A Robot Sin? How Artificial Intelligence Is Challenging Christian Ethics”, Christian Today.
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Colin Wood: Artificial intelligence
“Artificial intelligence (AI) is not some Asimovian fantasy, nor an extravagance best left to starch-smocked scientists clinking beakers together in an underground laboratory. AI is an opportunity to create tools that save money, save lives and improve life in ways that can’t be measured.” —COLIN WOOD, “Grounding AI: Artificial Intelligence is Closer — and Less…
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Ginni Rometty: Technology will enhance us
“Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we’ll augment our intelligence.” —Ginni Rometty.
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Gemma Whelan: World run by automatons
“I’m more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence – in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn’t ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn’t seem completely unrealistic anymore. It’s a bit chilling.” —Gemma…
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Gray Scott: The Terminator
“You have to talk about ‘The Terminator’ if you’re talking about artificial intelligence. I actually think that that’s way off. I don’t think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.” —Gray Scott.
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Peter Diamandis: Regulation
“If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.” —Peter Diamandis.
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Sybil Sage: Alexa
“Someone on TV has only to say, ‘Alexa,’ and she lights up. She’s always ready for action, the perfect woman, never says, ‘Not tonight, dear.’” —Sybil Sage.
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Alan Kay: Inferiority complex
“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.
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Sebastian Thrun: Almost a humanities discipline
“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.
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Jean Baudrillard: Lacks artifice
“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” —Jean Baudrillard.
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Jimmy Fallon: They don’t have a choice
“If you’re a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don’t have a choice.” —Jimmy Fallon.
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Ewan McGregor: Never wanted to do in the first place
“If you’re suddenly doing something you don’t want to do for four years, just so you’ve got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don’t have that 16-year-old drive any more and you’ll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.” —Ewan McGregor.
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Nigel Farage: Quality of life
“We shouldn’t measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.” —Nigel Farage.
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Rob Kardashian: Dress socks
“I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way – especially men in suits who just have the traditional business suit. The dress sock is the way to change it up in your mind and I like wearing my pants up higher so you see them.” —Rob Kardashian.
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Kirsten Gillibrand: Alive and well
“Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.” —Kirsten Gillibrand.
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Sebastian Maniscalco: Weirder group of people
“I’ve never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office.” —Sebastian Maniscalco.
