#artificial

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. ↗

— Tom Ford

#comes #i #i do #i think #monogamy

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

The artificial is always innocent. ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#artificial #innocent

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface? ↗

— Anne Parillaud

#happy #purpose #surface

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ↗

— Alfred Newman

#flavors #furniture #lemonade #lemons #living

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#artificial-intelligence #computers #personhood #technology #change

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computers #diversity #robots #intelligence

Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ... ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#intelligence

You realize, there is no free-will in anything we create with Artificial Intelligence... ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#memories-with-maya #singularity #transhumanism #intelligence