--- title: "1 Achieving goals Quotes By Stuart J. Russell" description: "1 Achieving goals quotes by Stuart J. Russell. Plus more from Stuart J. Russell and more Achieving goals sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/stuart-j-russell-21468_achieve_you-have-a-very-precisely-defined-goal-a_2168316.jpg" --- > [You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/you-have-a-very-precisely-defined-goal-and-you-build-a-machine-that-s/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-j-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/stuart-j-russell-21468_achieve_you-have-a-very-precisely-defined-goal-a_2168316.jpg) ## Other authors on Achieving goals - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-dalio-77503.jpg) Ray Dalio 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achieving-goals/ray-dalio/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-anurag-prakash-ray-38.jpg) Anurag Prakash Ray 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achieving-goals/anurag-prakash-ray/) ## More by 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 off is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/the-robot-is-not-going-to-want-to-be-switched-off-because-you-ve/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 of hardware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/google-or-other-search-engines-are-examples-of-ai-and-relatively/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/it-s-unlikely-that-machines-would-spontaneously-decide-they-didn-t/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 human race…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/it-s-very-hard-to-predict-what-kind-of-uses-we-d-make-of-assistants/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 superhuman ability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/when-people-talk-about-the-singularity-when-people-talk-about/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 things we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/chess-programs-don-t-play-chess-the-way-humans-play-chess-we-don-t/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 they give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/you-re-able-to-use-a-search-engine-like-google-or-bing-or-whatever/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 of computation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/the-more-we-learn-about-ai-and-about-how-the-brain-works-the-more/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 machine, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/if-human-beings-are-losing-every-time-it-doesn-t-matter-whether-they/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 raw number…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/a-lot-of-people-talk-about-sometime-around-2030-machines-will-be-more/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 it back.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/i-used-to-say-that-if-you-gave-me-a-trillion-dollars-to-build-a/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 robots that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/leg-locomotion-was-for-decades-thought-to-be-an-incredibly-difficult/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 and can,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/i-expect-that-people-are-going-to-feel-differently-about-that-once/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 than we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/no-one-has-a-clue-how-to-build-a-conscious-machine-at-all-we-have/) [Stuart J. Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 not enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-j-russell/some-phd-physicists-write-software-or-work-for-hedge-funds-but/) [Stuart J. 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