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.
Marvin MinskyRead
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!
Interpretation
What this quote means
True understanding comes from seeing things from multiple perspectives.
Marvin Minsky emphasizes that shallow understanding is inadequate; instead, true comprehension involves connecting various concepts and viewing them from different angles. This holistic approach to knowledge allows individuals to creatively explore ideas, fostering deeper insights and more effective problem-solving.
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UnderstandingPerspectivesKnowledgeConnectionsThinking
In practice
Example use cases
A teacher might use this quote to encourage students to explore topics from various angles.
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All quotes →You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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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.
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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.
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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
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