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From the online book, edited by David G. Stork: Hal's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality.
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David G. Stork: You -- along with John McCarthy, Claude
Shannon, Nathaniel Rochester, and others -- are credited with
founding the field of artificial intelligence (AI) at the famous
Dartmouth conference in 1956. A decade later, in the mid-sixties, when
Clarke and Kubrick began work on 2001
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Stories involving Minsky. [Wired Archive]
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Can a machine become conscious? Not by spoon-feeding it a ready-to-run consciousness program, says the Media Lab's Rodney Brooks. A machine that interacted with the world as an infant does, on the other hand, might be a different story.
" One researcher who has been decidedly frosty toward the
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His page. One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence; a significant contributor to cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, optics (microscopy). Published writings and links to research groups. [MIT Media Lab]
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Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Professor of E.E.C.S., M.I.T
Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology,
mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years
he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for
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Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August 9, 1927 ( 1927-08-09 ) (age 82)
Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an
's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and
Marvin Lee Minsky was born in
from 1944 to 1945. He holds a BA in Mathematics from
(1950) and a PhD in the
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Introduction and sizable interview. [EDGE 3rd Culture]
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Consciousness is a Big Suitcase
A Talk with Marvin Minsky
"[People] like themselves just as they are," says Marvin Minsky. "Perhaps they are not selfish enough, or imaginative or ambitious. Myself, I don't much like how people are now. We're too shallow, slow, and ignorant. I hope that our future
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Article by Marvin Minskyin in the 'Machinery of Consciousness', Proceedings, National Research Council of Canada, 75th Anniversary Symposium on Science in Society, June 1991. On the Mark Hughes website.
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Published in "Machinery of Consciousness", Proceedings, National Research
Council of Canada, 75th Anniversary Symposium on Science in Society, June
1991. I don't have the final publication date.
Many people today insist that no machine could really think. "Yes,"
they say, "machines can do many
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Page with picture, and link to the document, which attempts to explain why people become confused by questions about the relation between mental and physical events.
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This chapter attempts to explain why people become confused by
questions about the relation between mental and physical events.
When a question leads to confused, inconsistent answers, this may
be because the question is ultimately meaningless or at
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Legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence ponders brains, bashes neuroscience, suggests plan for superhuman robot servants.
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The legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence ponders the brain, bashes neuroscience, and lays out a plan for superhuman robot servants. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
The legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence ponders the brain, bashes neuroscience, and lays out a plan for superhuman robot servants.
; published online January 12, 2007
Courtesy of Donna Coveney/MIT
Marvin Minsky straddles the worlds of science and sci-fi. The
and artificial intelligence
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