A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off.