Monday, November 21, 2011

Sayings : Believing in Yourself

Believing in yourself is the first step of achievement. Unfortunately it is only 20% of the battle. To achieve anything worthwhile you need to put in a massive amount of effort behind that belief. --Thomas Messerschmidt

Sayings : A "Maybe"

A "maybe" is as good as a "no." Get commitment.

Sayings : Robotics

Building robots takes all the spare time you have, and all the spare time you haven't. --Thomas Messerschmidt

A convincing chatbot/artificial personality is 20 years away and always will be.--Thomas Messerschmidt

The self-driving car (a car where you are just a passenger and have no need to look at the road at all) will not arrive for general sale (a model that anyone can buy and "operate") in your local showroom until at least 2023.--Thomas Messerschmidt

Artificial intelligence is still mostly smoke and mirrors.--Thomas Messerschmidt

IBM's Watson "cheated" when it played on Jeopardy. --Thomas Messerschmidt