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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:Why do you say AI is going nowhere? by TopShelf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Going nowhere? AI and the Sixers are still alive in the playoffs, it's not like they're getting swept or anything...

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  2. Yay!!!!!! by Asprin · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    YAY! HUMANS ARE STILL SPECIAL!!!!



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  3. Agents by LordoftheFrings · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    From article:
    "The question is, what is the best research strategy to get (us) from where we are today to an integrated, autonomous intelligent agent?"
    This guy WANTS agents? Dude, all they do is try to kill Neo et all. Man, we should stop all future AI projects now, this guy wants AGENTS!!
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  4. Blame Windows and GUI by WetCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... to current application stupidity.
    I see that in the end of 80-x most applications were much smarter.
    And I can explain why. No GUI troubles!
    You can focus on what is your task, having SIMPLE
    inputs and outputs.
    Windows (and X-Windows too) brings event-driven programming to please users and realtime AND forced that on application programmers.
    Before, programmer that programmed AI task
    spent 90% on the meaningful code,leaving only 10% to input and output tasks.
    with "event-driven" introduced
    he should spend at least 60% of his time
    reacting on a lot of stupid user clicks and events
    and thinking about synchronizations.
    Only in 2000-s some applications overcome that burden on programmer, allowing him to separate GUI from meaningful calculations (GTK, etc).
    So we are basically 10 years late, thanks Event-Driven buzzword...