We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that’s as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that’s much smarter. There’s no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can’t. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o’clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed! Marvin Minsky Read Quote
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 Minsky Read Quote
I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you’re trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That’s one theory of pleasure. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
It’s degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that’s trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what’s really happening. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
