Altered Quote by Tom Wolfe

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with…

— Howard Rheingold

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going…

— Freeman Dyson

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks…

— Thomas Nagel

“One can readily imagine improved versions of this technology—perhaps a next-generation implant could plug into Broca’s area (a region in the frontal lobe involved…

— Nick Bostrom

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

— Iain Banks

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

— Nicholas Negroponte

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

— Freeman Dyson

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

— Robert C. Solomon

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 brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

— Timothy Leary

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

The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

— Kwabena Boahen