Collected Data

R.I.P. Marvin Minsky 1927-2017

John Horgan for Scientific American;

"We have many layers of networks of learning machines," he explained to me, "each of which has evolved to correct bugs or to adapt the other agencies to the problems of thinking." It is thus unlikely that the brain can be reduced to a particular set of principles or axioms, "because we're dealing with a real world instead of a mathematical one that is defined by axioms."


The Many Minds of Marvin Minsky (R.I.P.)

Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (NY Times)