Marvin Minsky - Unexpected problems with language machines (79/151)
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2016 · Science & Technology
To hear more of Marvin Minsky’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB2SsvcECzI&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFxJatFYBb7P4NZscvJw1f0r The scientist, Marvin Minsky (1927-2016) was one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence, having founded the MIT AI Lab in 1970. Since the 1950s, his work involved trying to uncover human thinking processes and replicate them in machines. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2011] TRANSCRIPT: But we ran into some strange unexpected problems. For example, in the... in that wonderful period starting in the 1960s we had a couple of programs that were really, seemed... that... we had a couple of programs that seemed quite promising as steps towards understanding language and making machines that could communicate with people about ordinary things. Of course it was easy to get computers to communicate about highly technical things, because in a sense, things that are highly technical and advanced are usually much simpler than the things that you encounter as an ordinary person in the ordinary world.
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