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…

- Stuart J. Russell

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…

- Stuart J. Russell

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…

- Stuart J. Russell

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

- Stuart J. Russell

The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness.

- Stuart J. Russell

The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount of computation it does is truly inc…

- Stuart J. Russell

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…

- Stuart J. Russell

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…

- Stuart J. Russell

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…

- Stuart J. Russell