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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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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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New York City
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