Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence..

No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we have about build a faster-than-light space….

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunitie….

You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the su….

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever genera….

A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number of computations they….

We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how….

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew h….

The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness..

Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work….

Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings..

There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience. We don't ev….

What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might….

There are lots of companies that are really trying to collect as much information as they can about every single person on the planet because they th….

Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the things we do is spot some oppor….

If you had a system that could read all the pages and understand the context, instead of just throwing back 26 million pages to answer your query, it….

AI's ability to recognize visual categories and images is now pretty close to what human beings can manage, and probably better than a lot of people'….

When people talk about the singularity, when people talk about superintelligent AI, they're not talking about sentience or consciousness. They're tal….

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings..

If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they s….

Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that….