Devon Eriksen > Quotes

“Word and hand on it,”
― Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire

“We eventually learned to stop calling it Artificial Intelligence,” says some balding character on the vid, probably an actor because he’s dressed in the sort of white lab coat that an actual computer scientist would have no reason to wear. “We simply came to accept learning behaviors as being part of the way that we, as a civilization, created task-specific software. Programs learned better ways to process predefined inputs, but never developed anything like a human capacity to understand context.”
― Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire

“Right now, all 133 servers on the White Cat, most of them little more than re-purposed desktop computers running open source software”
― Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire

“dude’s eight books in, each one’s taking him longer than the last, and I doubt he’ll ever finish.”
― Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire

“Then we strung the whole thing together with YCloud and a network of secondhand servers I bought from a decommissioned data center in the L3 trojan point.”
― Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire

“There are ways it could work. We could run it like an open-source software company, charge for tech support, and take donations.”
― Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire

“But your plan thought it was King Elvis of Fairyland. Mine just talks to trees.”
― Devon Eriksen, Theft of Fire