You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.
I bet the human brain is a kludge
Logic doesn't apply to the real world.
We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.
The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
Minds are simply what brains do.
Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.
You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
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