Automate This Quotes

“Cope’s bot can string together notes that weave in and out with the power of Beethoven or the finesse of Mozart. That a machine can produce things of such beauty is threatening to many in the music community. “If you’ve spent a good portion of your life being in love with these dead composers and along comes some twerp who claims to have this piece of software that can move you in the same way, suddenly you’re asking yourself, ‘What’s happened here?’” Cope says. “I’m messing with some very powerful relationships.”
― Christopher Steiner, Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World

“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a weapon with which to create algorithms powerful enough to build semiconductors, connect us through radio, and launch satellites into orbit with a laser's precision. Calculus and algorithm have intertwined histories, meanings, and power.”
― Christopher Steiner, Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World

“Algorithms have already written symphonies as moving as those composed by Beethoven, picked through legalese with the deftness of a senior law partner, diagnosed patients with more accuracy than a doctor, written news articles with the smooth hand of a seasoned reporter, and driven vehicles on urban highways with far better control than a human.”
― Christopher Steiner, Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World

“Cope’s bot can string together notes that weave in and out with the power of Beethoven or the finesse of Mozart. That a machine can produce”
― Christopher Steiner, Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World