Marvin Minsky, one of the early pioneers of neural networks, died on Sunday at the age of 88. The obituary in the Washington Post paints a fantastic picture of his life. Minsky was friends with ...
With AI, though, it’s different. The stakes are different – the impact on our society and our personal lives is different. So ...
Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of the U.S. Navy An Alternative to Buying Greenland That Could Actually Work A Sorry President Marvin Minsky, a seminal figure in the world of artificial intelligence ...
The seven decades of "artificial intelligence" have been marked by exaggerated promises, surprising developments and ...
It was the brainchild of four American computer scientists—John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon—and brought together some of the brightest minds in computer ...
He and Marvin Minsky, whose work was just as influential in the AI field, organized the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956. A few years later, with McCarthy on the ...
Premium online access is only available to PW subscribers. If you have an active subscription and need to set up or change your password, please click here. New to PW? To set up immediate access ...
Top scientists debated how to tackle AI. Some, like influential academic Marvin Minsky, favoured a top-down approach: pre-programming a computer with the rules that govern human behaviour.