There is no doubt this Man is clever.But listening to him speak he cannot hide his self regard to an extent that it becomes distasteful. He has two main contributions: 1) Created a simplified Turing Machine 2) Wrote a book that arguably prevented research work into Neural Networks in the 1970s The latter was an attack on Rosenblatt's Perceptrons. That showed Minsky was quite a powerful and influential academic who arguably held back research. Apparently he has been frozen after his death by Arcor in the hope at some point in the future he can be revived. A message to future generations, if you do revive Minsky (patient 144 at Arcor) don't give him any position to influence the science and research of your time. If you have revived him hopefully you can point out to him where he was wrong and why.
No one loved Minsky as much as he loved himself. How can someone be responsible for groundbreaking research in artifical INTELLIGENCE when he or she doesn't even understand the INTELLIGENCE spectrum? Yet another biased math guy with a major god complex... (who spoke with such incorrect certainty that he took down his own field!)
@@MoneyR8 They are just ranting. It is true that Minsky had quite an ego, but his *attack* on the perceptron was more helpful than anything else. By pointing out the limitations of the precursor of artificial neural networks mathematically, he pushed others to reformulate the learning procedure. Besides, the AI winter was not caused by a single man. Don't forget the institutions responsible for giving funding also have their own wills.
What he said, without saying it, was that he was initially intensely lonely in Harvard. And then he found people who were interested in subjects congruent with his own interests. Those people gave him the ability to flourish inside his own mind. That, in the beginning, was what he needed from a university.
In this video he explains why a lot of academics can't teach. They just can't relate to the world of less intelligent people.
There is no doubt this Man is clever.But listening to him speak he cannot hide his self regard to an extent that it becomes distasteful. He has two main contributions:
1) Created a simplified Turing Machine
2) Wrote a book that arguably prevented research work into Neural Networks in the 1970s
The latter was an attack on Rosenblatt's Perceptrons. That showed Minsky was quite a powerful and influential academic who arguably held back research.
Apparently he has been frozen after his death by Arcor in the hope at some point in the future he can be revived.
A message to future generations, if you do revive Minsky (patient 144 at Arcor) don't give him any position to influence the science and research of your time. If you have revived him hopefully you can point out to him where he was wrong and why.
No one loved Minsky as much as he loved himself. How can someone be responsible for groundbreaking research in artifical INTELLIGENCE when he or she doesn't even understand the INTELLIGENCE spectrum? Yet another biased math guy with a major god complex... (who spoke with such incorrect certainty that he took down his own field!)
I don't understand, what exactly did he do wrong? Can you guys elaborate a little bit please.
@@MoneyR8 They are just ranting. It is true that Minsky had quite an ego, but his *attack* on the perceptron was more helpful than anything else. By pointing out the limitations of the precursor of artificial neural networks mathematically, he pushed others to reformulate the learning procedure. Besides, the AI winter was not caused by a single man. Don't forget the institutions responsible for giving funding also have their own wills.
@@marzi8456 "intelligence spectrum" haha
@@dennismertens990he just couldn't have Rosenblatt steal his glory could he
he said Harvard student body is pretty stupid
Not literally, stupid
Well, compared to him...
What he said, without saying it, was that he was initially intensely lonely in Harvard. And then he found people who were interested in subjects congruent with his own interests. Those people gave him the ability to flourish inside his own mind. That, in the beginning, was what he needed from a university.
He matured and realized there are different expression of intelligence
@@johnrose217 I like that. "Different expression of intelligence" is something I'm going to steal from you if you don't mind.
Too f'n low