People thrive on genuine connections - not with machines, but with each other. You don't want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are - and will continue to be - best at.

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It's hard to imagine today's Amazon without AI, an impressive, and growing, part of Amazon's competitive edge is due to their sophisticated AI systems.

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We see some policy shifts, we see some small changes, but there was no explosive announcement.

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AI is too important a technology to be dedicated to things like ad targeting or ordering things in a news feed.

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In the past, Apple has not been at the vanguard of machine learning and cutting edge artificial intelligence work, but that is rapidly changing, they are after the best and the brightest, just like everybody else.

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AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

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AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

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A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.

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Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

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Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.

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My dream is to achieve AI for the common good.

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Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning, which is a vibrant research area in artificial intelligence, or AI.

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When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways.

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The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.

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Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

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Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined.

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An AI utopia is a place where people have income guaranteed because their machines are working for them. Instead, they focus on activities that they want to do, that are personally meaningful like art or, where human creativity still shines, in science.

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Taking new technology and incorporating into how people work and live is not easy.

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The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents.

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Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.

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Cloud computing, smartphones, social media platforms, and Internet of Things devices have already transformed how we communicate, work, shop, and socialize. These technologies gather unprecedented data streams leading to formidable challenges around privacy, profiling, manipulation, and personal safety.

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