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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

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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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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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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
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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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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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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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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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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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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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