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 do is spot some opportunity on the chess board toward a move to capture the opponent's… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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. — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount of computation… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
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… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back.… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
