Clue Quote by Stuart J. Russell

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

— Iain Banks

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness…

— Michio Kaku

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

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

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as…

— Rodney Brooks

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

— Miguel Nicolelis

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however,…

— Tom Chatfield

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

“Suppose non-conscious algorithms could eventually outperform conscious intelligence in all known data-processing tasks – what, if anything, would be lost by replacing conscious intelligence…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at…

— John Zachary Young

The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means there's nothing…

— Neill Blomkamp

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort.…

— Dorothea Lange