AI Going Nowhere?

jhigh writes "Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Labratories is displeased with the progress in the development of autonomous intelligent machines. I found this quote more than a little amusing: '"The worst fad has been these stupid little robots," said Minsky. "Graduate students are wasting 3 years of their lives soldering and repairing robots, instead of making them smart. It's really shocking."'"

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AI researchers...

[Sanity]

...have spent the last 50 years discovering exactly how intelligence doesn't work, but are no closer to discovering how it does.

Re:Will we ever have *real* AI?

[jgerman]

Wow, please mod down for gross misuse of the Uncertainty principle.

of how god works, and I just can't see how one would understand something that is bigger than all of us.

Easy, there is no god, religion works telling the weak how to live their lives.

I've always said "make a differential equation that models my soul, then tell me what my favourite colour is".

Nonsense. Prove you have a soul. Then one day maybe we will. Favorite color may be nothing more than a chemical reaction induced by physicial stimuli that makes you feel "good". It doesn't exist "somewhere else" as you imply.