Quotes by Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ﬁrst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t ﬂexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Sound

Trying

Typewriters

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

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints – limitations on space, time, and materials.

Intelligent

Problem

Space

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

Mind

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

Ifs

One Day

Three

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

Done

Machines

Men

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.

Astrology

Discovery

Science

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it’s stuck.

Bigs

Doe

Levels

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.

Jurassic Park

Light

Race

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas – of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

Common Sense

Ideas

Simple

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Able

Acquire

Action

Activity

Agents

Approach

Art

Astrology

Believe

Bigs

Bird

Block

Book

Brain

Car

Cases

Certainty

Childhood

Children

Common Sense

Compare

Computer

Couple

Creativity

Differences

Discovery

Diversity

Doe

Done

Doors

Earth

Education

Evolution

Example

Excitement

Expression

Eye

Fiction

Focus

Four

Free Will

Goal

Hands

Human Brain

Humorous

Hundred

Ideas

Ifs

Ignorance

Innovation

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Quotes by Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints – limitations on space, time, and materials.

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

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.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it’s stuck.

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.

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas – of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

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