Marvin Minsky Quotes

Marvin Minsky — American Scientist born on August 09, 1927,

Marvin Lee Minsky is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy... (wikipedia)

The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Marvin Minsky Quotes

Marvin Minsky Quotes

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