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Scientific Perspectives

"The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point."
Claude Shannon · 1948
"Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men."
Marvin Minsky · 1968
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
Alan Turing · 1950

Researchers & Academics

"Deep learning is good at fitting functions, but it's not good at abstract reasoning."
Judea Pearl · 2018
"Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed."
Geoffrey Hinton · 2016
"AI is not magic. It's just math."
Fei-Fei Li · 2019
"We should shift the narrative from AI versus humans to AI with humans."
Kai-Fu Lee · 2018

Tech CEOs & Industry Leaders

"AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity."
Bill Gates · 2017
"In the long term, I think we will evolve in computing from a mobile-first to an AI-first world."
Sundar Pichai · 2016
"AI is going to change the world more than anything in the history of mankind."
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO · 2019
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency."
Melinda Gates · 2018
"AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization."
Jeff Bezos · 2017

Philosophical Views

"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do."
B.F. Skinner · 1969
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Edsger Dijkstra · 1984

Modern Insights

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
Stephen Hawking · 2014
"AI is one of the most profound things we're working on as humanity. It's more profound than fire or electricity."
Sundar Pichai · 2020
"AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on."
Sam Altman · 2023

Ethical Considerations

"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last."
Stephen Hawking · 2014
"The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence."
Stuart Russell · 2015
"We need a new ethical framework for AI that goes beyond traditional human-centered ethics."
Toby Ord · 2020

Future Perspectives

"Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029."
Ray Kurzweil · 2017
"We need to be super careful with AI. It is potentially more dangerous than nukes."
Elon Musk · 2014
"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
Demis Hassabis, DeepMind CEO · 2016

Research Leaders

"The biggest threat from AI is not that it will revolt, it's that it will do exactly what we ask it to do."
Stuart Russell · 2019
"We should be worried about the short-term safety of AI systems we're deploying now."
Yoshua Bengio · 2021
"The question isn't whether AI will change society. The question is who will benefit."
Kate Crawford · 2021