Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

I think people need to understand that deep learning is making a lot of things, behind-the-scenes, much better. Deep learning is already working in Google search, and in image search; it allows you to image search a term like "hug."

In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.