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
huge knew major problem research writer
A major problem with AI research then was that Ph.D. dissertations were huge programs, and only the writer knew how they worked.
learning way marvin
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
technology computer
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
typewriters trying sound
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.
brain human-brain humans
I bet the human brain is a kludge
humorous thinking people
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
mistake eye doors
We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.
brain making-changes principal
The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
smart thinking hands
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.
inquiry certainty acquire
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
brain machines meat
The brain happens to be a meat machine.
technology years able
It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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!