Eventually, robots will make everything. Marvin Minsky More Quotes by Marvin Minsky More Quotes From Marvin Minsky 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 fourintelligentyears 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. Marvin Minsky agentsmindway Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do. Marvin Minsky smartchildrenideas In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least. Marvin Minsky studyseems Logic doesn't apply to the real world. Marvin Minsky realmathknowledge In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. Marvin Minsky 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. Marvin Minsky findingproblemsnewproblem 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. Marvin Minsky findsomegoodwork 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! Marvin Minsky downmestandingfeet 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. Marvin Minsky understandyouproblemscience I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. Marvin Minsky someonethinklearningknowledge 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. Marvin Minsky alientrueknowsurprise Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. Marvin Minsky thanproblemssymbolsnumbers
