Architects of Intelligence Quotes

“Different people have different levels of understanding of the many things around them, and science is about trying to deepen our understanding of those many things.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“Imagine a scenario where we can develop AI to a point where AI largely runs the logistical aspects of everyone’s lives: transportation, clothing, personal care, health—everything is automated. In that world, our brain is now freed from doing what it does for 80% of the day. It’s free to pursue higher-order complexities. The question now is, what will we do? For example, what if studying physics and quantum theory produced the same reward system that watching the Kardashians does today? What if we found out that our brains could extend to four, five, or ten dimensions? What would we create? What would we do?”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“We don’t want machines with our type of intelligence. We actually want machines whose actions can be expected to achieve our objectives, not their objectives.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“Deep learning is an approach to machine learning. While machine learning is trying to put knowledge into computers by allowing computers to learn from examples, deep learning is doing it in a way that is inspired by the brain.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“Whenever I see Kurzweil I remind him that he is going to die. MARTIN FORD: That’s mean. RODNEY BROOKS: I’m going to die too. I have no doubt about it, but he doesn’t like to have it pointed out because he’s one of these techno-religion people. There are different versions of techno religion. There are the life extension companies being started by the billionaires in Silicon Valley, then there’s the upload yourself to a computer person like Ray Kurzweil. I think that probably for a few more centuries, we’re still mortal.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“The desire to take over the world is not correlated with intelligence, it’s correlated with testosterone.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“We should think about alternatives to some of the very basic assumptions we’re making. The one piece of advice I give people is that if you have intuitions that what people are doing is wrong and that there could be something better, you should follow your intuitions. You’re quite likely to be wrong, but unless people follow the intuitions when they have them about how to change things radically, we’re going to get stuck. One worry is that I think the most fertile source of genuinely new ideas is graduate students being well advised in a university. They have the freedom to come up with genuinely new ideas, and they learn enough so that they’re not just repeating history, and we need to preserve that. People doing a master’s degree and then going straight into the industry aren’t going to come up with radically new ideas. I think you need to sit and think for a few years.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“This gives us a lot more than just a visual model: it also gives us a physical model of objects.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it

“A danger that many researchers are passionate about is the specter of fully autonomous weapons.”
― Martin Ford, Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it