Marvin Minsky - Making the most useless machine [video]

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Marvin Minsky (b. 9th August, 1927) is one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence; founding the MIT AI lab in 1970. He has also made many contributions to the fields of mathematics, cognitive psychology, robotics, optics and computational linguistics. Since the 1950s he has attempted to define and explain human cognition; the ideas of which can be found in his two books, The Emotion Machine and The Society of Mind. His many inventions include the first confocal scanning microscope, the first neural network simulator (SNARC) and the first LOGO 'turtle'.

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[SaskView]

Thank you, Marvin Minsky!

[Mahaveez]

If the most useless machine one that operates entirely to, when turned on, turn itself back off...

does that include the universe?

[somercet1]

Awesome, Marvin.