Oh, Valkyrie, you have no idea.” Tell me then.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

Emotions – Happiness, anger, jealousy… is the mind experiencing “presence” in our holographic existence.

The Tausennigan Ob’enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears?””Yes, they do, and they’d cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation!””I guess that explains their rich military history, then.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.

You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

I think they are a better race than humans ever were.

What use was time to those who’d soon achieve Digital Immortality?

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these...

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to...

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don’t stop.

i can create my imagination coz i am because Artist.!

I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment,” she added, “because we’re pretty damn good at...

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That’s like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.

You can’t hack your destiny, brute force…you need a back door, a side channel into Life.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Why give a robot an order to obey orders—why aren’t the original orders enough? Why command a robot not to do harm—wouldn’t it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first...

Yet, it’s our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.

But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart....

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I’m not ready to bepwned.

Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which...

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order...

No… we’re not playing God. We’re only attempting to set things right.

A pulse. Beat-beating against her palm. Alive. Beat by beat the bottomless whirlwind of perceptions and data and images and sensations careening through her mind—so many how can this tiny skull hold them all—began to...

To be human is to be ‘a’ human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when...

It’s amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.