Austin Kleon? T. S. Eliot? C. E. M. Joad? Ecclesiastes? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The recent creation of artificial intelligence systems that generate text, images, and videos has caused ferocious controversy and motivated several copyright lawsuits. The current generation of popular AI systems are trained using billions of webpages and billions of images. The …
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Quote Origin: People Don’t Realize How Much Time and Effort Is Required To Learn To Read. I Have Been At It for Eighty Years, and I Haven’t Reached My Goal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? Carl Sandburg? Ruth Strang? Johann Peter Eckermann? John Oxenford? Henry R. Tedder? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: When the famous German intellectual Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an octogenarian he spoke to a friend about the effort required to read a text carefully and deeply. He said something like the following: …
Quote Origin: Before We Reach Human-Level AI We Will Have To Reach Cat-Level & Dog-Level AI
Yann LeCun? Demis Hassabis? Bence Ölveczky? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Progress on artificial intelligence during the 2010s and 2020s has been remarkable. The AlphaFold computer program developed by DeepMind employed machine learning techniques with deep neural networks to successfully predict protein structures. The AlphaGo program used a tree search algorithm together with deep neural …
Quote Origin: If You Want To Be a Grocer, or a General, or a Politician, or a Judge, You Will Invariably Become It; That Is Your Punishment
Oscar Wilde? Stephen Fry? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The following remark about selecting a career is comically acerbic: If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. The statement above has been attributed to the famous Irish playwright …
Quote Origin: You Have To Be Careful To Protect the Rights of People You Despise
Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Robert Lenzer? John Rhoades? Ann Landers? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A society which grants wide liberties and constitutional rights to engage in speech and action will contain people who are performing activities deemed distasteful or reprehensible by many. The following remark is pertinent: You have to be careful to protect the …
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Quote Origin: People Don’t Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care
Theodore Roosevelt? Margaret Tyson? Zig Ziglar? John C. Maxwell? James F. Hind? Beltone Hearing Aid Company? Question for Quote Investigator: Interpersonal relationships are based on trust. A knowledgeable person can be impressive, but another quality is more important when establishing a connection. Here is a pertinent adage: People don’t care how much you know until …
Quote Origin: Promise People That They Will Have a Chance of Maltreating Someone
Aldous Huxley? George Sokolsky? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Social media enables people to express righteous indignation by joining together to form electronic mobs. The chance to target and maltreat individuals while maintaining a good conscience is psychologically appealing. The opportunity to hurt and pull down others is enticing to some people. Apparently, the English …
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Quote Origin: Show Me a Good Loser and I’ll Show You a Loser
Knute Rockne? Red Auerbach? Robert Zuppke? Fred Taylor? Richard Nixon? Jimmy Carter? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Any participant in competitive sports must eventually experience defeat. The value of good sportsmanship has been emphasized by many mentors. Different terms have been employed to contrast the divergent reactions to defeat: “gracious loser”, “good loser”, “poor loser”, …
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Quote Origin: Art Is the Window of a Person’s Soul. Without It, They Would Never Be Able To See Beyond Their Immediate World
Lady Bird Johnson? Claudia Alta Johnson? Jill Biden? Henry Seldis? Question for Quote Investigator: A First Lady of the United States once spoke about the importance of experiencing great art. She said that art was the window of person’s soul. Art was required to see beyond the immediate everyday world and to see the inner …
Quote Origin: As Soon As It Works, No One Calls It AI Anymore
John McCarthy? Pamela McCorduck? Bertram Raphael? Donald Michie? Melanie Mitchell? Bertrand Meyer? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) researchers tackled a variety of challenging problems. One early goal was the development of symbolic mathematics systems capable of performing polynomial factorization, integration, and differentiation. Researchers made such great progress that this field was …
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