Civilization Quote by Stuart J. Russell

“Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.”

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 you; they essentially index the pages based on the words that you're searching, and then they intersect that with the words in your query, and they use some tricks to figure out which pages are more…

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The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount of computation…

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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…

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A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number…

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I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back.…

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Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

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Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as…

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