AI Going Nowhere?

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 13, 2003 @02:54AM from the prolog-hackers-unite dept.

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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Why do you say AI is going nowhere? by SpanishInquisition · 2003-05-13 02:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Does it bothers you that AI is going nowhere?

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of course it's going no where... by gricholson75 · 2003-05-13 02:59 · Score: 4, Funny

.. it was a really bad movie.
That's OK... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-13 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I don't see NON-ARTIFICIAL intelligence progressing a whole hell of a lot either...
Re:Will we ever have *real* AI? by Transient0 · 2003-05-13 03:10 · Score: 5, Funny

No one has ever been able to satisfactorily create/reproduce one.

My parents had no problem producing a brain; four in fact. Maybe I'll create some myself some day. I could tell you how but I'd need a signed note from your mom :).

Creating brains isn't hard; creating artificial brains is.

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Re:Intelligence isnt the problem by Ogrez · 2003-05-13 03:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually upon rethinking... screw thinking.. I want a machine that has emotion...I want a machine that gets pissed off and tries to electrocute Garry Kasparov after loosing a chess game.

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Re:Will we ever have *real* AI? by tsa · 2003-05-13 03:24 · Score: 3, Funny

I read about artificial brains in a book somewhere. To be able to make an artificial brain we first need to know how to make a lot of positrons, and how to keep those away from electrons. Then we can make a brain.

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The 'A' stands for artificial! by Thud457 · 2003-05-13 03:31 · Score: 4, Funny

"Sure, but the whole point of AI was that we were supposed to be able to ask it where it thought it was going... and that not only it would know, but would give a well thought out answer too!"
You can't get that much out of most humans!

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Missing Minskey Quote by Snot+Locker · 2003-05-13 03:45 · Score: 4, Funny

They forgot to add this quote from Minskey:
"How the hell am I ever going to be able to download my brain into these damn little robots if they don't hurry up and make them smarter? I running out of time, dammit!!!"
i thought it was about al gore by circletimessquare · 2003-05-13 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

"Al Going Nowhere?"

well duh!

what idiot made the lowercase L and uppercase I look the same?

but, since we're on the subject, did you know Al Gore invented the field of AI?

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Maybe they'd have made more progress if... by geekee · 2003-05-13 05:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Stallman and co. hadn't spent so much of their time rewriting unix *GNU), instead of working on AI, like they were supposed to be doing. :-)

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