John McCarthy

AI is a field that will continue to challenge and inspire us.

The internet is a testament to human ingenuity and collaboration.

AI is about making the world a better place through technology.

The internet has changed everything.

As soon as we have a sufficiently powerful and general AI, it will be able to improve itself and then we will have an intelligence explosion.

The idea of a time-sharing system was to make computers more accessible and useful to more people.

AI is not just about building intelligent machines, it's about understanding intelligence itself.

We want to make machines that think, in the full and literal sense.

Common sense is not so common.

If a machine can do a job, it should do it.

The problem of AI is not to make computers think like people, but to make computers think.

We need to understand how to represent knowledge in a way that machines can use it.

The future of AI is not about replacing humans, but augmenting human intelligence.

LISP is the most powerful and general-purpose programming language ever designed.

The ability to learn is a crucial aspect of intelligence.

We are trying to build machines that can reason about the world.

The goal of AI is to make machines do what we want them to do, not necessarily how we do it.

Artificial intelligence is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.

The problem with AI is that as soon as it works, we stop calling it AI.

We need to develop formalisms for representing common sense knowledge.