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… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of self-driving cars where there's no steering wheel or brake pedal. Knowing what I know about computer vision and AI, I'd be pretty uncomfortable with that. But I am a fan of a combined system… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
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… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
AI works really well when you couple AI in a raisin bread model. AI is the raisins, but you wrap it in a good… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
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… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us.… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
I became interested in AI in high school because I read 'Goedel, Escher, Bach,' a book by Douglas Hofstader. He showed how all their… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
