“ General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. 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 man… Marvin Minsky
“ 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
“ I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. Marvin Minsky
“ 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
“ 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 v… Marvin Minsky
“ 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… Marvin Minsky
“ 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 h… Marvin Minsky
“ 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
“ We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order to make o… Marvin Minsky
