Ramez Naam Quotes
AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.
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Honestly, I am a shy person.
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
