I’d like to make a fundamental impact on one of the most exciting, intelligent questions of all time. Can we use software and hardware to build intelligence into a machine? Can that machine help us solve cancer? Can that machine help us solve climate change? Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way? Oren Etzioni Read Quote
The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automatically look at a bunch of different stores and see where can you get the best price on a computer or some such thing, so that was the motivation. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
People thrive on genuine connections – not with machines, but with each other. You don’t want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are – and will continue to be – best at. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
A universal basic income doesn’t give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
It’s much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
