Technology Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stuart J. Russell