Artificial Quotes - Page 29

• To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

  Gerhard Richter

  Firsts, Photograph

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• Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

  Camille Paglia

  Defense, Construction

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.1, Yale University Press

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• Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

  Johnny Depp

  Looking Forward, Superficial, Wells

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

  James Frey

  Bombs, Cloning, Tests

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Civilization, Territory

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to interface with and combine ourselves with machines and machinery and electronics - those will all be opt-in moments. Would you choose to have some sort of brain implant? Would you choose to have Google Glasses installed in your eyes? It's all an approach; it's all a glide path to the moment of genuine singularity; genuine artificial intelligence.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Eye, Opportunity, Glasses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Differences, Views, Funny Things

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.

  T.C. Boyle

  Joy, Looks, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My point of view actually on artificial intelligence, which ties into the nature for humans constantly looking into the reasons for why we exist and why consciousness exists changed during the making of Chappie. And I'm not actually completely sure that humans are going to be capable of giving birth to A.I. in the way that films fictionalize it.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Views, Ties, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yes/no answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A.I., which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Icons are also beautiful, with their luminous colors and gold leaf. On first glance, the subjects can seem flat, their poses artificial. But the wonder of the icons has to do with the relationship which develops between the panel and the viewer. Looking at an icon brings me a feeling of serenity; it's like a form of prayer. So I suppose in this sense, the icon is unsurpassed.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Beautiful, Prayer, Color

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Moving, Order, Effort

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Beautiful, Distance, Small Objects

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Simple, Clouds, Views

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Two, Half, Shapes

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Class, Names

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

  Kevin R. Stone

  Records, Medical, Nightmare

  "Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?" by Kevin R. Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2014.

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• People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

  Timothy Leary

  Teaching, School, Sunday

  "LSD: Methods of Control". 1966.

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• For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Children, Healing, Night

  1978 Of the night sky in Nepal. The Snow Leopard,'Northward, October18'.

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• Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.

  Adam Leipzig

  Artist, Thinking, People

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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.

  Kevin Warwick

  Believe, Home, Numbers

  "Computer Simulating 13-year-old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test". www.reading.ac.uk. June 09, 2014.

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• By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  People, Danger, Artificial Intelligence

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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.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fall, Ideas, Keys

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• But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Cutting, Men, Names

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.133

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• The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Men, Rights

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1903). “PONKAPOG PAPERS”

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