“A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who’s behind it.” — M. J. Rose

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Who’s hints leave a trace,
Who’s prints fit the frame.
Clues cut to the chase.
A signet stakes claim.
Fake sleuths get the case.
Whodunit takes blame.

Round up the usual suspects! —Fake prefect of police, Casablanca

Upstairs maid?
Butler bot? Mac hack?
Palette knife?

Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot. —Fei-Fei Li

Fake shamus
Terabyte bloodhound
blames fake dame

I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines. —Claude Shannon

Fake gumshoe
Sneakernet plod
Steps up chase

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. —Alan Kay

Fake Mountie
Catches mounted clue
Red-handed

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. —Diane Ackerman

Fake spook bloke
Occam’s razor sharp
Takes a stab

AI might be a powerful technology, but things won’t get better simply by adding AI. —Vivienne Ming

Fake lab boy
Quantum mechanic
Traps lab rat

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. —Sebastian Thrun

Don’t be fooled
Cool tools merely drool
Artists bleed

The thing that’s going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture. —Dan Brown

Whodunit
For the fun in it
Who’s to blame

In the end, I expect we’ll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters. —Ramez Naam

 

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