Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minskywas an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 August 1927
CountryUnited States of America
intelligent space problem
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
intelligent perfect diversity
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.
levels hundred process
How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
children earth robots
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
moving-on vision evolution
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.
real knowledge math
Logic doesn't apply to the real world.
years bird evolution
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
people fiction way
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
knowledge way understood
If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
brain mind
Minds are simply what brains do.
mind rationality
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
smart thinking hands
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.
inquiry certainty acquire
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
years ideas childhood
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.