Marvin Minsky

The biggest problem in AI is not building intelligent machines, but building machines that can learn.

The idea of a 'free will' is just an illusion. Our decisions are determined by our brain's processes.

The brain is a machine that makes mistakes, and then learns from them.

The biggest challenge in AI is not to make machines intelligent, but to make them creative.

The idea of a 'superintelligence' is not a threat. It's an opportunity.

The brain is a parallel processing machine, not a serial one.

The biggest problem in AI is not building intelligent machines, but building machines that can understand emotions.

The idea of a 'soul' is just a way of avoiding the hard questions about consciousness.

The future of AI is not about building a single, all-knowing oracle, but about building a vast network of specialized intelligences.

The brain is a self-organizing system, not a top-down one.

The biggest challenge in AI is not to make machines intelligent, but to make them ethical.

The idea of a 'human-level AI' is a misleading concept. Intelligence is not a single, linear scale.

The brain is a prediction machine. It's constantly trying to anticipate what will happen next.

The biggest problem in AI is not building intelligent machines, but building machines that can communicate with us effectively.

The computer is a byproduct of the search for artificial intelligence.

Minds are simply what brains do.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

We are born with many mental agencies that work together to help us survive, but then we learn to think, which changes everything.