Marvin Minsky - Society of Mind (2007)

Marvin Minsky - Society of Mind (2007)

MIT OpenCourseWare - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - 6.868J The Society of Mind, Spring 2007 - Audio Lectures

1-02 Lecture 04_ Attachments and goals.mp3

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1-03 Lecture 05_ From pain to suffering.mp3
1-04 Lecture 06_ Consciousness.mp3
1-05 Lecture 07_ Consciousness.mp3
1-06 Lecture 08_ Levels of mental activities.mp3
1-07 Lecture 09_ Common sense.mp3
1-08 Lecture 10_ Thinking.mp3
1-09 Lecture 11_ Resourcefulness.mp3
1-10 Lecture 12_ Resourcefulness (cont.).mp3
1-11 Lecture 13_ The self.mp3

Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky.pdf - 336 p.

Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. Marvin Lee Minsky was born in New York City to a Jewish family,[1] where he attended The Fieldston School and the Bronx High School of Science. He later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1945. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Harvard (1950) and a PhD in the same field from Princeton (1954).[2] He has been on the MIT faculty since 1958. In 1959[3] he and John McCarthy founded what is now known as the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is currently the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science. Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.[4] Patrick Winston has also described Minsky as the smartest person he has ever met. Ray Kurzweil has referred to Minsky as his mentor. Minsky's inventions include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) and the confocal microscope[5] (1957, a predecessor to today's widely used confocal laser scanning microscope). He developed, with Seymour Papert, the first Logo "turtle". Minsky also built, in 1951, the first randomly wired neural network learning machine, SNARC.

Probably no one would ever know this; it did not matter. In the 1980s, Minsky and Good had shown how neural networks could be generated automatically—self replicated—in accordance with any arbitrary learning program. Artificial brains could be grown by a process strikingly analogous to the development of a human brain. In any given case, the precise details would never be known, and even if they were, they would be millions of times too complex for human understanding.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey[7]