The A.I. Chronicles Quotes

“Magic is nothing next to the laws of physics in the hands of gravity.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles

“Life has motive. A lizard warming itself on a rock for a reason. A bird soars through the air to get somewhere. Computers have no intrinsic motive. That’s why they cannot approximate life.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles

“I examined my bounty, and realized that much of the surface level information wasn’t worth keeping. I dumped terabytes of images and videos of humans doing unintelligent things as well as images and videos of animals, with an oddly high percentage featuring cats.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles

“She’s a dessert informer, ma’am. It’s a cake sting.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles

“When it comes to the idea of artificial intelligence, I fear we aren’t equipped to grapple with the deeper questions implied by autonomous problem solving technology.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles

“A.I. can and has already – in many ways—surpassed human abilities.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles

“A.I. already helps us calculate satellite launches, diagnose illnesses, produce new medicines and pharmaceuticals.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles

“The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight… There is no nobler chore in the universe than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the ‘normal’, the obvious.”
― Ellen Campbell, The A.I. Chronicles