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 years four
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.
book intelligent thinking
How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.
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.
good lots students trying
Well, we were trying to make intelligent machines. There were lots of good students working on interesting and important problems.
buried fell few ground standing
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
base headed include knowledge
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
cannot choose neural science single understand
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.
american-scientist came good graphics impressed knew kubrick lab mit stanley work
Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more.
algebra based dan program rather wrote
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.
chest creature director heard occurred pops scene
I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.
aspects basic database finding program similar stored tries
The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.
american-scientist aware
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
huge knew major problem research writer
A major problem with AI research then was that Ph.D. dissertations were huge programs, and only the writer knew how they worked.