Terry Winograd

understand human answers meaningful questions

"Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions."

— Terry Winograd

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"In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those aspects of computing that are focused on people, rather than machinery."

— Terry Winograd

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"The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction."

— Terry Winograd

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"There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools."

— Terry Winograd

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"A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn't have the intelligence."

— Terry Winograd