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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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
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The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the real meaning of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
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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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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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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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Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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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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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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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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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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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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By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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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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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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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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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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