Pooja Kashyap

“In the words of John McCarthy, who coined the term “artificial intelligence”: “As soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore.” AI is—as those of us building it like to joke—“what computers can’t do.” Once they can, it’s just software.”
― Mustafa Suleyman, The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future

“If there is a God, He sure hates people. That’s all I can say.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake

“The story I will tell could be read by some as a tragedy. To put it bluntly—and to give away the punch line—we have failed. We inherited a science, physics, that had been progressing so fast for so long that it was often taken as the model for how other kinds of science should be done. For more than two centuries, until the present period, our understanding of the laws of nature expanded rapidly. But today, despite our best efforts, what we know for certain about these laws is no more than what we knew back in the 1970s. How unusual is it for three decades to pass without major progress in fundamental physics? Even if we look back more than two hundred years, to a time when science was the concern mostly of wealthy amateurs, it is unprecedented.”
― Lee Smolin, The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next – How Theoretical Physics Lost Its Way and the Search for the Next Big Idea

“[C]onsistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid