I think it’s important for us to have a rule that if a system is really an AI bot, it ought to be labeled as such. ‘AI inside.’ It shouldn’t pretend to be a person. It’s bad enough to have a person calling you and harassing you, or emailing you. What if they’re bots? An army of bots constantly haranguing you – that’s terrible. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff – the useful from the noise – via AI-enabled algorithms. With AI, such an infrastructure would be able to identify the exact study a scientist needs from the tens of thousands on a topic. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called ‘AI complete,’ meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve artificial intelligence. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
One of my favorite sayings is, ‘Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.’ Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Things that are so hard for people, like playing championship-level Go and poker, have turned out to be relatively easy for the machines. Yet at the same time, the things that are easiest for a person – like making sense of what they see in front of them, speaking in their mother tongue – the machines really struggle with. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
The truth is that behind any AI program that works is a huge amount of, A, human ingenuity and, B, blood, sweat and tears. It’s not the kind of thing that suddenly takes off like ‘Her’ or in ‘Ex Machina.’ Oren Etzioni Read Quote
There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood ‘Terminator’ scenario. Oren Etzioni Read Quote
