Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minskywas an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 August 1927
CountryUnited States of America
mind rationality
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
brain mind
Minds are simply what brains do.
differences car needs
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
science looks television
It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
couple powerful years
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.
smart simple technique
This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
pet might lucky
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
block people robots
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
music art people
We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.
study seems
In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
robots
Eventually, robots will make everything.
focus looks willing
Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
mind agents way
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.
aspects basic database finding program similar stored tries
The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.