A Quote by Alison Gopnik

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans. — © Alison Gopnik
The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.
I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
My ideal fight would be against the smallest guy with the most atrocious record in the largest venue for the most insane paycheck. I love easy fights.
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.
One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate.
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.
[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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