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AI Going Nowhere?

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:Will we ever have *real* AI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well...

    One could argue that our brains are just synapses firing. Each one on it's own knows absolutely nothing. However, it's the SYNERGISTIC effects of all the synapses working together that creates our brain, which allows us to reason, etc (Note: This is without religion getting in the way, I'd personally not go there...)

    Steve

  2. The Cyc project by pauljlucas · · Score: 4, Informative

    Although mentioned in a (lone) paragraph in the article, I don't know why we haven't heard more about the Cyc project. Lenat's premise that you can't have intelligence without knowing the millions of "obvious" things about the world, aka, "common sense" seems intuitively right.

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