2018 in Review: 10 AI Quotes
The last 12 months saw unprecedented international public discourse around all things AI. As part of our year-end wrap-up, this week Synced looks at what ten notable people had to say about artificial intelligence in 2018:
“AI is currently very, very stupid…”
- Google Vice President and Cloud AI Head Andrew Moore
“What’s really important is putting humanity at the center.”
- Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Director Fei-Fei Li
“Perhaps we should call this ‘Cargo Cult AI’ or ‘Potemkin AI’ or ‘Wizard-of-Oz AI’. In other words, it’s complete bullsh*t (pardon my French).”
- Facebook VP & Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun
“Artificial intelligence should not look like humans”
- Baidu CEO Robin Li
“Stop.”
- HBO’s Westworld series Co-creator Jonathan Nolan
“AI should be market and economy centric”
- Top AI Scientist and UC Berkeley Professor Michael I. Jordan
“Should radiologists be worried about their jobs? Breaking news: We can now diagnose pneumonia from chest X-rays better than radiologists.”
- Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and Stanford University professor
“Data is the new oil, and China is the new Saudi Arabia”
- Kai-Fu Lee, Founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and author
“The day you start dealing with privacy issues, the day you open this data and unveil personal information, you open a Pandora’s Box”
- French President Emmanuel Macron
“Short-term AGI Is a serious possibility”
- OpenAI Co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
Journalist: Fangyu Cai | Editor: Michael Sarazen
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