intelligence quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
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"Great minds go on asking confounding questions with the same intensity throughout their lives."
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"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."
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"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."
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"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
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"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
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"Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive."
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"The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability."
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"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded."
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"The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most."
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"Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold."
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"Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition."
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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."
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"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."
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"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."
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"Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make."
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"In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose."
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"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."
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"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
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"The singularity is when we create superintelligence and it becomes the last invention that humanity needs to make."
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"The singularity represents the point of no return, when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and becomes capable of self-improvement."
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
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