Time to look at Marvin Minksy’s work
Every so often Marvin Minksy’s name comes up in relation to Artificial Intelligence. It’s on my AI todo list, check out his work, buy his book “Society of Mind“, etc.
I stumbled upon a quote from him:
“No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.â€
This intersects my thoughts about AI. We don’t really know what our brain is doing or how to be able to implement that in worse hardware (e.g. Chips versus Brain).
How things work is often a mystery because it’s hardwired in us somewhere. We don’t really think about the rules of language to use language, we don’t think about which muscles are contracting when we walk, nor do we think about digesting food after we’ve eaten. I guess that’s what makes AI hard to implement, because we think it’s easy because we don’t have any trouble doing things. Yet we don’t know the how or can’t articule it, which means it’s hard to build that into an extremely structured system.