quotations about artificial intelligence
AI resembles the gray matter in your head about as much as a pull-string doll resembles a rocket scientist. There's a similarity in shape, ish: So-called neural networks are software programs inspired by neuroscience. But these systems have only a few million "neurons," which are really just nodes with some input/output connections. That's puny compared to the 100 billion genuine neurons in your cranium. Read it and weep, Alexa!
LEE SIMMONS
"Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not Like Your Brain--Yet", Wired, January 3, 2018
The worst thing we could do would be to imagine that machines can do all our thinking for us; they can't. We are moral creatures, and we can't avoid that responsibility.
MARK WOODS
"Can A Robot Sin? How Artificial Intelligence Is Challenging Christian Ethics", Christian Today, January 12, 2017
Unfortunately, like global warming, the effects of AI are slow and invisible--on a human timescale anyway. So it's easy to pretend--no matter how idiotic this is--that AI is just a rerun of the Industrial Revolution. It's easy to pretend that each new advance isn't really a step toward true AI. It's easy to pretend that each individual industry to fall is just a special case. It's easy to pretend that something else is always more important.
KEVIN DRUM
"Artificial Intelligence Is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not", Mother Jones, February 6, 2017