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There was a failure to recogni...

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

When David Marr at MIT moved i...

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

I think Lenat is headed in the...

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

We wanted to solve robot probl...

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.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Kubrick's vision seemed to be ...

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

If you just have a single prob...

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

How many processes are going o...

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

One can acquire certainty only...

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

All intelligent problem solver...

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Good theories of the mind must...

Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

What magical trick makes us in...

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

The nature of mind: much of it...

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Everything is similar if you'r...

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Our present culture may be lar...

Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Eventually, robots will make e...

Eventually, robots will make everything.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

In science, one learns the mos...

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Artificial intelligence is the...

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

To say that the universe exist...

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, 'What caused the Universe to exist?'

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Societies need rules that make...

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 Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Logic doesn't apply to the rea...

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....