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" Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined. "
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" 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. "
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" A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice. "
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" 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. "
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" AI works really well when you couple AI in a raisin bread model. AI is the raisins, but you wrap it in a good user interface and product design, and that's the bread. If you think about raisin bread, it's not raisin bread without the raisins. Right? Then it's just bread, but it's also not raisin bread without the bread. Then it's just raisins. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI. "
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" The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game. "
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Own
" When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways. "
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" What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody. "
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Say
People
Need
" AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours. "
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" One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.' "
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Much
Students
" 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. "
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" My family is my number one priority. "
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Family
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" 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. "
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" Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. "
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Intelligence
Face
Automation
" 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. "
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Looking
Learning
" 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. "
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Start
Say
Will
" When you have a large amount of data that is labeled so a computer knows what it means, and you have a large amount of computing power, and you're trying to find patterns in that data, we've found that deep learning is unbeatable. "
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You
Trying
Power
" The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents. "
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" Because of their exceptional ability to automatically elicit, record, and analyze information, A.I. systems are in a prime position to acquire confidential information. "
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" Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world. "
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World
Short
Life
" I'd like to make a fundamental impact on one of the most exciting, intelligent questions of all time. Can we use software and hardware to build intelligence into a machine? Can that machine help us solve cancer? Can that machine help us solve climate change? "
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" 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. "
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Loved
Best
Baby
" A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.' "
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Any
Must
Off
" It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil. "
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Turn
Will
Life
" I think that there are so many problems that we have as a society that AI can help us address. "
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I Can
Help
Think
" If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation. "
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You
Back
Realize
" Driverless cars are a great thing. "
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Great
" 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. "
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Food
People