# Machines Will Build Smarter Machines by W. Daniel Hillis > "Our thinking machines will be smarter than we are, and the machines they make will be smarter still." > **— W. Daniel Hillis**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [I Think, Therefore AI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26251) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by W. Daniel Hillis; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] - [[wiki/Artificial Life|Artificial Life]] - [[wiki/Distributed Intelligence|Distributed Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Artificial Ecology|Artificial Ecology]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Our thinking machines will be smarter than we are, and the machines they make will be smarter still." — W. Daniel Hillis, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-daniel-hillis-machines-build-smarter-machines ```