The Father of Artificial Intelligence - Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist who was largely concerned with the research of artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory and wrote several texts concerning AI and philosophy(Excerpt from Wikipedia.org).
Reading recommendation: Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”
Quotations from the Father of Artificial Intelligence - Marvin Minsky - Excerpt from the 'Artificial Intelligence and Business Innovation' course at The Erindale Academy of Toronto.
1. “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
— Marvin Minsky
2. “Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.”
— Marvin Minsky
3. “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”
— Marvin Minsky
3. “We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.”
— Marvin Minsky
4. “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
5. “If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.”
— Marvin Minsky
6. “No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.”
— Marvin Minsky
7. “It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.”
— Marvin Minsky
8. “Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.”
— Marvin Minsky
9. “Eventually, robots will make everything.”
— Marvin Minsky
10. “Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we’re lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.”
— Marvin Minsky
11. “But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it’s stuck.”
— Marvin Minsky
12. “One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.”
— Marvin Minsky