When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago. — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how we think: that is, how a mere handful of matter can perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate… — 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
