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user-inactivated  ·  3608 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Society of Mind – Marvin Minsky

As well respected as Minsky is (and deserves to be), and as widely read as this book is, no one really went anywhere with it. As far as I know, there is just AMBR and its descendants, and they're not as exciting as one might hope. AI isn't a humble discipline, but all of its successes have been with more humble problems. Grand theories sketched out in advance do more harm than good; they don't help with the nuts and bolts, they give the impression that we understand much more than we do, and then people rightly ask "so where are our minds-in-a-box?"