#technology

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#economic #effect #environment #etc #everything

But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you've let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you? People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. Before the crash, bankers believed in supposedly intelligent algorithms that could calculate credit risks before making bad loans. We ask teachers to teach to standardized tests so a student will look good to an algorithm. We have repeatedly demonstrated our species' bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. Every instance of intelligence in a machine is ambiguous. The same ambiguity that motivated dubious academic AI projects in the past has been repackaged as mass culture today. Did that search engine really know what you want, or are you playing along, lowering your standards to make it seem clever? While it's to be expected that the human perspective will be changed by encounters with profound new technologies, the exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#artificial-intelligence #computers #personhood #technology #turing

There were so many forms of prehistoric technology. Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society. ↗

— Toba Beta

#fit-into-society #found #men

Magic, like technology, is a tool. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#magic #technology #tool

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. ↗

— Max Lerner

#government #means #suicide #technology #world

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#bogged #down #forget #get #pet

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been. ↗

— Steve Martin

#anything #been #blame #danger #everything

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#both #company #dna #generally #heavily

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets. ↗

— John McKinley

#actually #alongside #development #getting #into

Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology. ↗

— Jean-Marie Messier

#communications #customers #few #globe #groups