7 quotes by Marvin Minsky

“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!” — Marvin Minsky

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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.” — Marvin Minsky

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“When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.” — Marvin Minsky

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“I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.” — Marvin Minsky

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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.” — Marvin 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.” — Marvin Minsky

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“If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.” — Marvin Minsky

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