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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
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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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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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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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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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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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Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
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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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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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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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