{"id":1074,"date":"2016-01-29T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2016-01-29T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T03:15:36","slug":"farewell-marvin-minsky-1927-2016-stephen-wolfram-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Marvin Minsky (1927\u20132016)\u2014Stephen Wolfram Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>That afternoon we were driving through Pasadena, California\u2014and with no apparent concern to the actual process of driving, Feynman\u2019s visitor was energetically pointing out all sorts of things an AI would have to figure if it was to be able to do the driving. I was a bit relieved when we arrived at our destination, but soon the visitor was on to another topic, talking about how brains work, and then saying that as soon as he\u2019d finished his next book he\u2019d be happy to let someone open up his brain and put electrodes inside, if they had a good plan to figure out how it worked.<\/p>\n<p>Feynman often had eccentric visitors, but I was really wondering who this one was. It took a couple more encounters, but then I got to know that eccentric visitor as Marvin Minsky, pioneer of computation and AI\u2014and was pleased to count him as a friend for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stephenwolfram.com\/2016\/01\/farewell-marvin-minsky-19272016\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/marvin-minsky-and-stephen-wolfram.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A true pioneer in AI.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stephenwolfram.com\/2016\/01\/farewell-marvin-minsky-19272016\/\">Farewell, Marvin Minsky (1927\u20132016)\u2014Stephen Wolfram Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That afternoon we were driving through Pasadena, California\u2014and with no apparent concern to the actual process of driving, Feynman\u2019s visitor was energetically pointing out all sorts of things an AI would have to figure if it was to be able to do the driving. I was a bit relieved when we arrived at our destination, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}