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Cognitive scientist; co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
United States · 1927–2016
Marvin Minsky was an American mathematician and cognitive scientist who co-founded the artificial intelligence laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Society of Mind, and he received the Turing Award in 1969.
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So any student who wants to get into psychology, right now the students are like lemmings. They say, “Well, it’s popular to study brain science, I’ll do that.” Or, “It’s popular to do neural networks; I see 30,000 people doing it, it must be good.” And my advice is if a lot of people are doing it, don’t waste your time.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 4 May 2001 source ↗
People don’t have the slightest idea about how they do reasoning, and intuition is a polite word for guessing. And some people think that there’s some special kind of intuition which gives you the right answer in a magical way.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 4 May 2001 source ↗
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