But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
Interpretation
Human intelligence is defined not just by success, but by how it navigates challenges and obstacles.
Marvin Minsky highlights a crucial aspect of human-level intelligence, emphasizing that true intelligence is not only demonstrated during successful problem-solving but is also revealed in moments of difficulty. When faced with challenges or obstacles, the ability to adapt, rethink, and find alternative solutions showcases the depth of oneβs intelligence and creativity.
In practice
In a presentation about artificial intelligence, this quote can be used to illustrate the importance of adaptability in machine learning.
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers.
I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
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