computers

“They're good at looking at lots of data. They're good at establishing and understanding base rates. So, for example, if you're thinking about an appropriate reference class for a particular decision, your technology will allow you to access that reference clas…”

“So in the not too distant future, the vast majority of the knowledge on earth Will be discovered and will be stored in computers.”

“And I think this emergence of computers as a source of knowledge is going to be every bit as momentous as the previous three were.”

“And in fact, it would be safer if it was completely flown by a computer. You know, pilots tend to take, you know, the controls at landing and takeoff, which are actually the more dangerous moments. And they make more errors than the computers do.”

“I think more likely what will happen is that people will still be playing each other, even though the best is our computers in the same way that, you know, there's race cars that go way faster than people. But we still have people doing, you know, in the Olymp…”

“The best chess players in the world today are what are called centaurs in the community. They're a team of a human and a computer. So a human and a computer can actually, together, can actually beat the computer.”

“It'll be a long time before those intuitions and those imaginations are created by computers. Ok, but it won't be a long time before computers produce better quality thinking.”

“So there's always room for sales, for marketing, for management, including in the distant future. Computers will not be doing that for us anytime soon.”

“Right now, there are mathematical proofs done by computers that human beings can't understand. The best mathematicians in the world don't understand those proofs, and all they can say is, we can't find a mistake in it. It's probably right, but we're not real s…”

“So I think it's good to use computers, obviously, but I would never, ever believe in using a computer as a tool for creativity at the beginning. You can use it later, like I said, to give you variations and options and things like that, and maybe to speed up t…”