Marvin Minsky

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

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Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— 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. ↗

— 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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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning. ↗

— 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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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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