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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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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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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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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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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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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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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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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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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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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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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To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, What caused the Universe to exist?
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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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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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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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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.
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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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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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