Stuart J. Russell

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

— Stuart J. Russell

The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness.

— Stuart J. Russell

The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount…

— Stuart J. Russell

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the…

— Stuart J. Russell

Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.

— Stuart J. Russell

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we…

— Stuart J. Russell

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give…

— Stuart J. Russell

I expect that people are going to feel differently about that once they're aware that AI systems can watch through a camera…

— Stuart J. Russell

When people talk about the singularity, when people talk about superintelligent AI, they're not talking about sentience or consciousness. They're talking about…

— Stuart J. Russell

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but…

— Stuart J. Russell

Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could…

— Stuart J. Russell

Most of the AI goes into figuring which are the important pages you want. And to some extent what your query means,…

— Stuart J. Russell

To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on…

— Stuart J. Russell

If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious…

— Stuart J. Russell

AI's ability to recognize visual categories and images is now pretty close to what human beings can manage, and probably better than…

— Stuart J. Russell

There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a…

— Stuart J. Russell

You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it…

— Stuart J. Russell

If you had a system that could read all the pages and understand the context, instead of just throwing back 26 million…

— Stuart J. Russell

We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to…

— Stuart J. Russell

No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that…

— Stuart J. Russell

Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot…

— Stuart J. Russell

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human…

— Stuart J. Russell

What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our…

— Stuart J. Russell

You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that…

— Stuart J. Russell

A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the…

— Stuart J. Russell

Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the…

— Stuart J. Russell

Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and…

— Stuart J. Russell

There are lots of companies that are really trying to collect as much information as they can about every single person on…

— Stuart J. Russell

The robot is not going to want to be switched off because you've given it a goal to achieve and being switched…

— Stuart J. Russell