Marvin Minsky on AI
5 quotes from Marvin Minsky on the wall, 1961 to 1982, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, Proceedings of the IRE, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- 1982
Most people think computers will never be able to think
Marvin Minsky, cofounder of the MIT AI Lab, opening his essay "Why People Think Computers Can't" in AI Magazine, fall 1982. It was later reprinted in Technology Review, Nov/Dec 1983.
Questions about thinking machines should really be questions about our own minds
Minsky, cofounder of the MIT AI Lab, answered common objections to machine thought in this AI Magazine essay of fall 1982.
- 1974
One selects from memory a structure called a Frame
Marvin Minsky, co-director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, set out his theory of frames in this lab memo (MIT-AI Laboratory Memo 306) in June 1974.
MIT Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryA Framework for Representing Knowledge (MIT AI Memo 306)
- 1961
Quite possibly dominated, by intelligent problem-solving machines
Marvin Minsky, mathematician at MIT and co-organiser of the 1956 Dartmouth project, wrote this survey of heuristic programming for the January 1961 computers issue of the Proceedings of the IRE.
Intelligent machines may be reluctant to believe
Marvin Minsky, MIT mathematician and co-founder of its AI project, in the section on models of oneself in his survey of heuristic programming in the Proceedings of the IRE, January 1961.