The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious. . . . Does it have feelings?
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.
I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.