Marvin Minsky apparently thinks he's just a few years away from building a "learning machine".
Did he give any explanation why he thinks so? (<sarcasm>And how long has he thought this?</sarcasm>) I mean, one traditional flaw of AI research is that the Great Breakthrough is always claimed to be a few years away.
On the other hand, part of the reason for this is that, by the time a Revolutionary Breakthrough happens, it's just an Incremental Improvement, and the target gets moved again. Sort of the opposite of "if you can't win, change the game". Did Minsky explain just what he expects the learning machine to be able to do?
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Date: 2004-09-09 01:19 pm (UTC)Did he give any explanation why he thinks so?
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<sarcasm>And how long has he thought this?</sarcasm>)I mean, one traditional flaw of AI research is that the Great Breakthrough is always claimed to be a few years away.
On the other hand, part of the reason for this is that, by the time a Revolutionary Breakthrough happens, it's just an Incremental Improvement, and the target gets moved again. Sort of the opposite of "if you can't win, change the game". Did Minsky explain just what he expects the learning machine to be able to do?