Is the world ready for the self-aware robot?
News Basically Marvin Minsky says, "That is what we are, and we are nothing but that," while modern AI research says it makes sense in the context of AI to talk about us as meat machines - it just makes sense, but that doesn't mean we are.
[April 12, 2005, 19:25]
Game developers get philosophical
News Influential futurist and MIT computer sciences professor Marvin Minsky noted the role games have played in pushing technology forward. Jump. Shoot the thing that moves. Pick up the thing that doesn't move.
[March 26, 2001, 13:36]
ALICE talks her way to victory in AI challenge
News The Loebner Prize, like the Turning Test itself, is not highly regarded by the professional AI community: the doyen of classic AI, Marvin Minksy, is on record as describing it as stupid, obnoxious and unproductive.
[October 16, 2001, 14:38]
Artificial Intelligence: DNA sequencers to dancing robots
News The concept involved building electronic analogues of brain cells and had been refined in the early 1960s by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, who had connected them into simple networks known as perceptrons.
[March 28, 2006, 11:40]
Enabling machines to reason like humans
News Principal figures at the Dartmouth conference included such notables as Marvin Minsky, then of Harvard University; Claude Shannon of Bell Laboratories; Nathaniel Rochester of IBM; and Dartmouth's own John McCarthy.
[July 5, 2006, 16:00]
