Glad I was able to get to meet Marvin back in 2014. On cognitive neuroscience he was pessimistic, he likened it to telling a chemist to try and discern what a computer was doing by looking at the machine without the monitor. Really enjoyed that analogy.
Marvin Minsky dies at 88
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Re: Marvin Minsky dies at 88
#42Isaac Asimov: "The only people I ever met whose intellects surpassed my own were Carl Sagan and Marvin Minsky."
Pretty egotistical to frame it that way of Asimov.
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#43Admin, can we get a black bar for this? Marvin Minsky is widely referred to as the "Founding Father of AI."
I can't imagine who deserves a black bar if Minsky doesn't, unless a grey bar would be more appropriate (Minsky was signed up for cryonics with Alcor, so he's not dead dead.)
> I can't imagine who deserves a black bar if Minsky doesn't
Have you chance to elaborate why this guy deserved this? Did he build first neural network, lisp machine, ALICE chatbot, break image net. I always considered him as some kind of celebrity from science, while other guys, which names nobody remembers, actually pushed AI movement by doing real things, while working on Google Brain, Watson, cyc, trying to catch spam, terrorists and fraudsters.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine who deserves a black bar if Minsky doesn't, unless a grey bar would be more appropriate (Minsky was signed up for cryonics with Alcor, so he's not dead dead.)
> I can't imagine who deserves a black bar if Minsky doesn't Have you chance to elaborate why this guy deserved this? Did he build first neural network, lisp machine, ALICE chatbot, break image net. I always considered him as some kind of celebrity from science, while other guys, which names nobody remembers, actually pushed AI movement by doing real things, while working on Google Brain, Watson, cyc, trying to catch…
Re: Marvin Minsky dies at 88
#45One of my earliest exposures to CS was his Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines.
"Communication with Alien Intelligence" is another favorite of mine. The idea of enumerating all possible Turing Machines and looking for ones that do something meaningful is brilliant.
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#46Re: Marvin Minsky dies at 88
#47Admin, can we get a black bar for this? Marvin Minsky is widely referred to as the "Founding Father of AI."
Black bar is an empty gesture. Who does it serve? He died, his ideas didn't.
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#48Some great sentences from Minsky:
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
Re: Marvin Minsky dies at 88
#49Re: Marvin Minsky dies at 88
#50Can we get a black bar for this one?