When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.’ My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It’s a tool that’s going to empower us. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It’s not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it’s not how most of us get our food. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
I like to say I’ve been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started working on it. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Instead of expecting truck drivers and warehouse workers to rapidly retrain so they can compete with tireless, increasingly capable machines, let’s play to their human strengths and create opportunities for workers as companions and caregivers for our elders, our children, and our special-needs population. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
I’m trying to use AI to make the world a better place. To help scientists. To help us communicate more effectively with machines and collaborate with them. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
