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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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Study
Least
Science
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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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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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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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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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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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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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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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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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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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Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
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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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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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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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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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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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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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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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