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I bet the human brain is a kludge
Marvin Minsky
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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Scientist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Marvin Lee Minsky
Marvin L. Minsky
Humorous
Brain
Human
Humans
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing but most of the time, we aren't either.
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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!
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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
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How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
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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.
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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
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