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5 days ago · Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert and Roger Schank were trying to solve problems like "story understanding" and "object recognition" that required a machine to think like a person. In order to use ordinary concepts like "chair" or "restaurant" they had to make all the same illogical assumptions that people normally made.
4 days ago · In 1970 computer scientist Marvin Minsky predicted that soon-to-be-developed machines would “read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight.”
Jun 7, 2024 · Invoking the 1956 AI conference in Dartmouth brings to mind Marvin Minsky, an unforgettable human mind. Upon his death in 2016, I wondered whether even the most advanced AI could ever match the...
Jun 13, 2024 · John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon coined the term artificial intelligence in a proposal for a workshop widely recognized as a founding event of the AI field. Allen Newell, Herbert Simon and Cliff Shaw wrote Logic Theorist, the first AI program deliberately engineered to perform automated reasoning.
Jun 9, 2024 · This article describes MIT's Project MAC, the organization that led the initial creation of Multics. This is not a comprehensive history of Project MAC: my goal is to provide context and motivation for Multics history, and to provide accurate statements and references for deeper investigation.
4 days ago · Artificial intelligence, the ability of a computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems with the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experiences.
Jun 20, 2024 · In the 1970s, cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky predicted that human-level machine intelligence was just a few years away. In a 1993 essay , computer scientist Vernor Vinge predicted that the technological singularity would occur within 30 years.
