Entrepreneurs

"But isn’t that life too? I’m an incredible life lover, that’s why I do and create so much. I love every single bit of my job…and this is just the beginning. Wait and see."

"Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run”"

"“It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries."

"“It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.”"

"Imagine if we can just talk to our computers and have it understand, ‘Please schedule a meeting with Bob for next week.’ Or if each child could have a personalized tutor. Or if self-driving cars could save all of us hours of driving.”"

"Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.”"

"“If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.”"

"No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this algorithm is and implement it on a computer, that can help us make a lot of progress.”"

"“If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.”"

"AI has been making tremendous progress in machine translation, self-driving cars, etc. Basically, all the progress I see is in specialised intelligence. It might be hundreds or thousands of years or, if there is an unexpected breakthrough, decades."

"Deep-learning will transform every single industry. Healthcare and transportation will be transformed by deep-learning. I want to live in an AI-powered society. When anyone goes to see a doctor, I want AI to help that doctor provide higher quality and lower cost medical service. I want every five-year-old to have a personalised tutor."

"“A lot of the progress in machine learning – and this is an unpopular opinion in academia – is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.”"

"These are best practices, not because we say so but because they prove successful from generation to generation of technology.”"

"“Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it’s still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.”"

"“A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.”"

"I believe in accountability: if something goes wrong, I take responsibility, look to find a resolution and learn from the experience. Mistakes and failure are important elements of growth"

"So, ask yourself: If what you're working on succeeds beyond your wildest dreams, would you have significantly helped other people? If not, then keep searching for something else to work on. Otherwise you're not living up to your full potential.”"

"“Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.”"

"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks."

"One reason I am at IBM is its commitment to leverage advanced technology and continue to push the innovation envelope to deliver value to the industry and benefit for clients..”"

"To be a good leader you have to be an entrepreneurial thinker – anticipating and adapting to enable new capabilities that deliver higher value to users"

"“I am always thinking about different uses for technology. One of the things that attracted me to IBM was its commitment to pushing the innovation envelope. What I find really inspiring are the endless possibilities innovation presents to leverage technology for the benefit of humankind, giving hope that we can meet pressing global challenges of providing nutrition and healthcare to everyone, or urgently addressing pollution, global warming and climate change for example.”"

"“I find it’s important to lead by example. I work to ensure my team develops a combination of trusting their own vision and approach, and is able to articulate and execute their decisions. That is the pattern I try to follow. I try to role model the qualities I expect in others. I try to communicate to my teams that my expectations from them are no different than the expectations from myself. If my teams see me practicing those values and demonstrating those when working across different divisions as well as with clients, that will help foster empowerment, collaboration and encourage inclusiveness"

"Being inclusive is very important to me. I work to ensure that people feel included and are in jobs that leverage their strengths. It’s important to know yourself as a whole person, and play to your strengths: that way you will build your confidence and at the same time advance your skills and talents"

"You see, basically looking at only one wide, you just have no signals or noise function. In other words, you look at one move, which you think is the best, but there’s a tremendous amount of noise. Well, you look at some more moves, and if you find that one of those are better, you’ve effectively rejected some noise. Well, essentially the thing that I knew that they did, they were very weak chess players, both McCarthy and Kotok. And basically they had a very romanticized view of chess. And so I knew, however, that chess is a very, very precise game. And you really- the name of the game is take the other guy’s pieces, and you don’t just go along. In any kind of a strong game, you don’t just lose pieces, win pieces, lose pieces, win pieces. I mean, if you lose even a single pawn without compensation, then you may have drawing chances, if you’re lucky. Otherwise, the game is lost. Losing more than one pawn almost invariably results in loss of the game, period."

"Most of this printout was analysis from the Kotok program. And I also saw some kind of a textual thing, which I don’t believe was Kotok’s thesis, but which had some of the same information as Kotok’s thesis. It was probably some kind of a technical report, or something, that was anticipatory to Kotok’s thesis [2]. Anyway, one of the things I remembered, and which I just talked with Kotok, as a matter of fact, a few days ago, was the detail that they had is Alpha Beta, and so forth, and they had these whips, and the whips were set at 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1. In other words, that was how many. It would first look at the top ply. It would look at the four best moves. The next plys, it would look at the three best. Next ply, two best, next ply, one best. Well, I just recognized immediately that that was incredibly wrong."

"I became very concerned initially that the data sources that were being used and the claims that were being made about these models created with this data were not accurate, were not sufficient to reflect the things that were being claimed, were certainly not sufficient to create an intelligent machine"

"the types of stories we tell about intelligence, about computational sophistication, were serving to entice people to trust and lend credibility to ultimately what are large companies, large corporate actors who may or may not have as their core objective broad social benefit and who create these technologies and these tools behind shrouds of corporate secrecy."

"I’m hoping some of the excitement about what we’re doing with AI today will attract many more young women to the field."

"I think I was initially interested and maybe a bit concerned around AI based not on my literature, my rhetoric backgrounds, but because I had done a lot of work building large scale measurement systems."

"This hybrid design enables human expertise to help guide and influence machine learning. This technology has been used for drug design, where insights provided by a medicinal chemist on desired properties for a new molecule can complement properties extracted from collected data on different molecules."

"A major focus at SRI has been creating AI technologies designed to complement human problem solving."

"And so I was effectively at the heart of the processes for creating data and then making claims about that data as a reliable representation of dynamic reality. And I knew how difficult that was."

"I was certainly an anomaly as a woman studying computer science back then. There were almost no women in my courses, and I never had a female professor — both as an undergraduate and graduate student. As an undergraduate, it was hard to connect with my fellow CS students."

"Experiential retail is in our DNA; it’s how we’ve built our most loyal community moments. I’d love to expand that further and also pursue collaborations with like-minded brands."

"One of my early projects involved building a task planner for Flakey, the successor robot to Shakey. A fun highlight related to that effort was when Alan Alda, the actor and host of the show Scientific American Frontiers"

"One area that excites me is neuro-symbolic AI, which combines data-driven machine learning with traditional AI methods that encode pre-defined knowledge as symbolic rules."

"“It was overwhelming in the best way. We had people lined up for hours, some who have been following since the very beginning and others discovering us for the first time."

"I knew that data was always imperfect. It was always partial. It was never the whole story. And so in the early twenty tens, when I saw first machine learning and then we all decided to use the term AI become the next big things following the Alex Net paper, following the recognition that GPUs could effectively supercharge the compute available for neural network training."

"“I love leaning into their vision and style and being a representative of what they stand for. For me, it’s fun to let these houses push me creatively while still grounding the looks in a way that feels like me"

"There is so much rich fashion history in sport in general, and luckily, tennis for years and years has been incredibly fashion forward and iconic. I never want it to feel like a costume, so to me it’s about carrying forward that elegance in a way that resonates today and is also comfortable."

"Now that I have secured so much work around tennis, I am definitely investing more into the looks, also to create exciting content for my audience,"

"A lot of professors from different schools said they didn't want to take women because women would just have children, and that would disrupt the Ph.D. Both at Cornell and at NC State, I had really good professors,“They were very supportive of me."

"That’s the whole story of my career, That's my passion, finding science-based products that work and that offer farmers and other customers a value proposition compared to chemical pesticides."

". “I had to be an entrepreneur because I want to solve problems and have practical applications,"

"I've always been driven toward the mission and vision of helping find effective, environmentally friendly pest management products and saving the planet at the same time."

"It’s all about building a community around energy. I’m over the political squabbles and other divides that prevent us all from working as one team. I even argued in a Newsweek column that “big oil” companies should hire environmental activists like Greta Thunberg! Take all that energy and passion that people have to bring solutions, and have them contribute. Everyone stands to gain from what I call Energy 2.0 — the energy of the future, filled with renewable and other greener sources, as well as carbon reduction and carbon capture systems. This is what we’re building at ALLY Energy: one community around energy. And I’m determined to never give up."

"I wanted to be an entomologist since I was about 8 years old “I saw all the trees getting ruined by these caterpillars. My father used a chemical to kill them on a prized dogwood outside the kitchen window [but] it killed all the good bugs – lady beetles, lacewings, honeybees and so forth."

"Dissect your experience. What is it about this experience that is causing you to feel the way you do? What lessons can be learned from it? There are lessons in just about every difficult experience that can strengthen you for the future. Ask yourself what you learned, what you would do in the future, and how you would counsel other people who go through similar difficult experiences. Often, you can even find a silver lining."

"Build self-awareness. Figure out what’s behind those emotions. What fears and insecurities are at work in your psyche? When I faced cancer the second time, I had to accept that I had spent too much of my life worrying about what other people think. That perspective was drilled into me. I realized that those fears were largely responsible for how I was handling tough situations. Therapy can be helpful in his process, guiding people to understand their own mindsets. The true path to any kind of self-actualization is through being conscious about who you are. A lot happens in the mind, including unconsciously."