"If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level."

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Source : "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.

#Men Quotes #Machines Quotes #Levels Quotes

“I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.”
“I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.”
“The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.”

Source : Anarchy, State, and Utopia ch. 7 (1974)
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
“The British government is a murder machine.”
“More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.”

Source : Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.65, Penguin
“Give out what you most want to come back.”
“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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