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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

— Andrew Yan-Tak Ng

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“Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.”

“Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it’s still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.”

“If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.”

“It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.”

Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.”

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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