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Marvin Minsky went so far as to argue that we should view human cognition as a “society of mind,”
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, thinks of the brain as a society—a society of subassemblies cooperating to learn about the world.251 The image can easily be reversed. A society is a brain, a learning device that works according to the principles that drive a neural net.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
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Minsky’s theory of intelligence, as expressed in his book The Society of Mind, could be unkindly characterized as “the mind is just one damn thing after another.” The Society of Mind is a laundry list of hundreds of separate ideas, each with its own vignette. The problem with this approach to AI is that it doesn’t work; it’s stamp collecting by
... See morePedro Domingos • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
As smart machines and robots take over more of our thinking, the brain risks becoming lazy, unstimulated, and, frankly, bored. In a world where work and struggle are things of the past, our experiences might dwindle to nothing more than a search for entertainment and pleasure — a cycle of reacting to one shiny distraction after another. When we hit
... See moreBig Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
