Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

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

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.

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.

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.