Marvin Minsky Quotes

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.

The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.

We live in a world where all the parts of a robot are very cheap, yet we don't have a lot of robots. And the thing that has been missing has been good enough Artifical Intelligence.

The only path to build intelligent machines is to enable it with powerful visual intelligence, just like what animals did in evolution.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

As the founding lead of the Google Brain team, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and now overall lead of Baidu's AI team of some 1,200 people, I've been privileged to nurture many of the world's leading AI groups and have built many AI products that are used by hundreds of millions of people.

Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.

I just thought making machines intelligent was the coolest thing you could do. I had a summer internship in AI in high school, writing neural networks at National University of Singapore - early versions of deep learning algorithms. I thought it was amazing you could write software that would learn by itself and make predictions.

You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.

Even companies like Baidu and Google, which have amazing AI teams, cannot do all the work needed to get us to an AI-powered society. I thought the best way to get us there would be creating courses to welcome more people to deep learning.

I thought the best place to advance the AI mission is at Baidu.

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.

We really believe that long-term, the way AI will drive is similar to the way humans drive - we don't break the problem down into objects and vision and localization and planning. But how long it will take us to get there is questionable.

Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.

A lot of what people are calling 'artificial intelligence' is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking 'What is A.I., really?,' don't worry, you're not alone.