agi quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"I see mind uploading as a gradual decades-long process of incremental neuronal replacements, exocortices, interlinking with AGIs and the Global Brain, some presently unseen trials and errors, but overall non-invasive and seamless process, at the end of which, we all will morph into 'substrate-independent' immortal digital minds."
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"At the early stage of transition to the radically superintelligent civilization, we may use the Naturalization Protocol simulations to teach AGIs our human norms and values, and ultimately interlink with them to form the globally distributed Syntellect, civilizational superintelligence."
293
"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 be contradicted."
294
"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."
295
"In this era of fake news and paid news artificial intelligence is more and more used as a political tool to manipulate and dictate common people, through big data, biometric data, and AI analysis of online profiles and behaviors in social media and smart phones. But the days are not far when AI will also control the politicians and the media too."
296
"Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface."
297
"Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make."
298
"In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose."
299
"We are entering a new world. The technologies of machine learning, speech recognition, and natural language understanding are reaching a nexus of capability. The end result is that we’ll soon have artificially intelligent assistants to help us in every aspect of our lives."
300
"Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence—in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league."
301
"The singularity is near."
386
"The singularity is the point at which exponential growth becomes infinite and technology becomes indistinguishable from magic."
387
"The singularity is when we create superintelligence and it becomes the last invention that humanity needs to make."
388
"The singularity is the ultimate escape hatch from the human condition."
389
"The singularity is the inevitable result of the ever-increasing rate of technological progress."
390
"The singularity represents the point of no return, when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and becomes capable of self-improvement."
391
"The singularity is the ultimate black swan event - a technological revolution that will change the course of human history forever."
392
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
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"Resentment and cynicism suffocate the human spirit. Choose optimism, and fight for the best possible future you can imagine."
286
"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair."
562
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
609
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."
645
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
689
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
752
"I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams."
757
"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever."
764
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
767
"Think of all of the amazing things you could have accomplished by now if you weren’t brutally lazy. Imagine all of the time you wasted, every opportunity you let pass by, all the good advice you arrogantly ignored."
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"But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses."
938
"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
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"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
998
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
1033
"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."
1083
"I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!"
1186
"See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
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"As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep."
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