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“Technology sneaks up on us. Suddenly, OpenAI’s ChatGPT bursts onto the scene, and within months, what seemed like overnight, its user base exploded to over 150 million by May 2023. ChatGPT swiftly became a term as common as household names. The entire world buzzed about artificial intelligence—a concept so potent it captured global imaginations. Yet, AI isn’t a sudden phenomenon. But if it wasn’t for putting a friendlier face on AI, democratizing it’s use, we may have been waiting longer.”

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Author:David Lloyd
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“In human terms, think of AI as an ‘intelligent machine.’ While various definitions exist, at its core, AI is about machines performing tasks typically done by humans, predominantly making predictions. Will you buy a new dress? What’s tomorrow’s weather? Will a stock price rise or fall? Is that a cat or a dog in the picture? Draft an email for a job application or even paint a picture of your favorite vacation spot in the style of Monet.”

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Author:David Lloyd
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“A common question I encounter is the impact of AI on jobs. Reflecting on the diverse age and experience range among my family, friends, and colleagues, I recall a poignant remark: “AI won’t eliminate your job, but the person who understands AI will.” This isn’t new; from PCs to internet and mobile, every tech wave requires us to adapt, often rapidly. AI will be no different, demanding even swifter adaptation”

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Author:David Lloyd
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“While we are only at the beginning of incorporating AI into scientific processes, AI has already found adoption in a wide range of scientific domains where it is accelerating the discovery of new explanatory knowledge. The next phase in the evolution of the scientific process will likely see (semi)autonomous AI scientists that radically transform the pace at which science is done.”

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Book:Artificial Intelligence: 10 Things You Should Know
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“It seems nothing can counteract the proliferation of this Artificial Intelligence based on the zero degree of thought. Nothing, that is, except this reversibility of intelligence and stupidity - the latter representing a renewed challenge to victorious intelligence. There is something here too like a revenge of evil. Something to which the tyranny of reality leads equally well - to appreciating any old form of madness and illusion.”

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Book:The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
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“The original mind already contains all wisdom and all virtuous qualities in their completeness. Therefore, it cannot properly be said that one has newly awakened or newly come to know something. If one must put it into words, the closest expression would be that it has been restored.”

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Book:AI Sage: Meditation Teaching Method to Personify a Non-Sentient Al as an Awakened Being
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“Swords, Guns and AI Technology will take us far, far and farther, until it dumps us back where we came from, in the caves, but of concrete ruins. We will once again fight with spears and axes, made of broken bits of chips and circuit boards. Silicon, lithium, gold, all will be worthless, apes will barter again with sheep and boars. Yesterday's world was obsessed with swords, today's world is obsessed with guns, tomorrow's world will be obsessed with AI, and it always ends up with death and destruction. Day after tomorrow it'll be business as usual, savage world will be back obsessing with fire, then again with swords, then guns, and so on, till the sky pours ashes and seas boil over.”

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Book:Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
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“You are still worried about machines taking over your lives! Your lives are already taken over, not by mechanical deities but by organic sectarian deities born of the womb of your own indifference.”

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Book:Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
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“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”

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Author:Marvin Minsky
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“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”

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Author:Marvin Minsky
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“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.”

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Author:Kevin Warwick
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“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.”

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Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
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“Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking
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“The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.”

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Author:Maurice Wilkes
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“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.”

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Book:The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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“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 to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.”

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Book:You Are Not a Gadget
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“In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.”

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Author:Allen Newell
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“The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from pure logic.... Most of the time, reaching the right decision requires little reasoning.... Expert systems are, thus, not about reasoning: they are about knowing.... Reasoning takes time, so we try to do it as seldom as possible. Instead we store the results of our reasoning for later reference.”

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Author:Daniel Crevier
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“Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.”

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Author:Daniel Crevier
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“We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how we think: that is, how a mere handful of matter can perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate a world far larger and more complicated than itself. The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, goes further still: it attempts not just to understand but also to build intelligent entities.”

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Author:Stuart J. Russell
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