Sukaina

“Historically, people have been naive about what qualities, if mechanized, would undeniably constitute intelligence. Is intelligence an ability to integrate functions symbolically? If so, then AI already exists, since symbolic integration routines outdo the best people in most cases.
If intelligence involves learning, creativity, emotional responses, a sense of beauty, a sense of self, then there is a long road ahead, and it may be that these will only be realized when we have totally duplicated a living brain.”
― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not. ”
― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders