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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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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
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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.
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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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But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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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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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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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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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
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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.
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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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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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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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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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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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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or mathematics envy.
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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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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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