List of Marvin Minsky Quotes

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Marvin Minsky
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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.
Intelligent Years Four
By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in jurassic park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. based on his techniques, industrial light and magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
Light Race Jurassic Park
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.
Science Discovery Astrology
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.
Vision Robots Action
We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
Quality Compare Turns
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?"
Silly Universe
If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
Knowledge Way Understood
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.
Vision Mit Excitement
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." we like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.
Believe Knowledge Thinking
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] isaac asimov and fred pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.
Couple Powerful Years
What would a martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? it must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.
Thinking Sight Laughing
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.
Mind Agents Way
  • Born: August 9, 1927
  • Died: January 24, 2016
  • Occupation: Scientist
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