| Hubert L. Dreyfus - Computers - 1992 - 412 pages
...think." Several distinguished computer scientists are quoted as predicting that in from three to fifteen years "we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being . . . and in a few months [thereafter] it will be at genius level. . . ." The complete robot may be... | |
| Tom Forester, Perry Morrison - Business & Economics - 1994 - 364 pages
...hundreds of times smarter than people.51 By 1970 Marvin Minsky of MIT was willing to be more specific. "In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of a human being," he declared.52 In 1987 Hans Moravec from Carnegie Mellon University publicly stated... | |
| David G. Stork - Computers - 1997 - 414 pages
...that the field was quite optimistic? After all, in a Life magazine article, you were quoted as saying "In from three to eight years we will have a machine...Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight. At that point the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few... | |
| Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak - Business & Economics - 1998 - 224 pages
...machinery replacing human brainpower. Here, for example, is MIT professor Marvin Minsky's 1970 prediction: In from three to eight years, we will have a machine...Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight. At that point, the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few... | |
| Noreen L. Herzfeld - Religion - 2002 - 166 pages
...Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do. (Simon, 1965)" In from three to eight years, we will have a machine...Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight. At that point, the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few... | |
| Barry W. Cunliffe, Wendy Davies, Colin Renfrew - Religion - 2002 - 652 pages
...machines will equal humans (Newell and Simon 1972); by 1970, Martin Minsky confidently stated that 'In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of a human being' (Minsky 1967); and even as late as 1983, Professor Edward Fredkin predicted that: There... | |
| Mercedes Vilanova - Computers and civilization - 2003 - 261 pages
...decipher its mysteries. In 1970, Marvin Minsky a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence claimed: In from three to eight years, we will have a machine...Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight. At that point, the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few... | |
| Mihai Nadin - Fiction - 2004 - 363 pages
...borderline. It is easy to become old. And impossible to go back. 39 ii "In from three to eight yea rs, we will have a machine with the general intelligence...Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight. At that point, the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few... | |
| Craig Holdrege - Science - 2010 - 274 pages
...scientist Marvin Minsky assured a Life magazine reporter in 1970 that "in from three to eight years we'll have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being ... a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare and grease a car." The story is well told by now... | |
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