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• In the 20th century, we humans did 2 World wars, many genocides, and even used Nuclear weapons. Relax, what could go wrong?

  New York Times comment

• When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it. I have become death. Destroyer of worlds.

  Robert Oppenheimer

• The smartest among us are not the ones who are the most dominating, and the most dominating are definitely not the smartest.

  Yann LeCun

• If you or I learn something and want to transfer that knowledge to someone else, we can’t just send them a copy,. But I can have 10,000 neural networks, each having their own experiences, and any of them can share what they learn instantly.…

  Geoffrey Hinton

• The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

  Ecclesiastes

• Once unfriendly super-intelligence exists, it would prevent us from replacing it or changing its preferences. Our fate would be sealed.

  Nick Bostrom

• Let us now assume, for the sake of argument, that these machines are a genuine possibility, and look at the consequences of constructing them. There would be plenty to do in trying to keep one’s intelligence up to the standards set by the…

  Alan Turing

• You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green-energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the…

  Steven Hawking

• If you go back in history, they made a lot of cool demos with little symbolic AI. They could never scale them up they were never able to get them to solve non-toy problems. Now with deep learning the situation is reversed. ... Not only is [the AI…

  Ilya Sutskever

• Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also…

  Robert Frost

• Don’t try calling a tinnitus helpline, it just keeps on ringing.

  Nick Cave

• There is no blank slate upon which works of true originality are composed, no void out of which total novelty is created. Nothing is original because everything is an influence; everything is original because no influence makes its way into our art…

  Maria Papova

• Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river small at first, narrowly…

  Bertrand Russell

• In a world ridden with so much hate, and disconnect; How do I live life to its absolute fullest, and not waste my potential? Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff…

  Nick Cave

• Absorb into yourself the world’s full richness and goodness and fun and genius, so that when someone tells you it’s not worth fighting for, you will stick up for it, protect it, run to its defence, because it is your world they’re talking…

  Christopher Horner

• Life can be divided into work and leisure, and war and peace; and of actions, some aim at what is necessary and useful, while others aim at what is noble…Just as war is for the sake of peace, so work is for the sake of leisure and what is…

  Aristotle

• At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than…

  Albert Einstein

• Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am)

  Descartes

• There is no conception without perception, and there is no perception without conception.

  Kant

• Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.

  Vladimir Putin