Interview With Marvin Minsky, 1990

Interview with Marvin Minsky, 1990, from the 5 part series The Machine that Changed the World, which chronicled the personalities and events of the computer revolution. View the entire interview and more from the series on WGBH Open Vault: openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E...

[@Brandon-ex8ui]

Wow his voice is completely different than it was in his later years

[@guitarcrax127]

What a joy to have been able to see this, I love how contrarian Marvin is. He has inspired so much in me

[@glenna.jaspart1391]

Jeff Goldblum could have played him in a movie on his life.

[@lekoman]

And perhaps may still.

[@yank3656]

thanks for sharing WGBH

[@sameeruddin]

Thank yo for uploading this !

[@Floxflow]

High quality interview, with the questions, sound and resolution.

[@tattoomas]

thank you so much for sharing this Interview 😍

[@verakalinichenko719]

Amazing and fascinating interview, thank you for sharing this. Love his vision back then saying that he would not be surprised that by 2010 (maybe 10-20 years later) pieces of software would be simulate what human brain does

[@mark83175]

Just his opening comment alone is eye opening.

[@Silvertestrun]

Ty

[@AmeerFazal]

Thanks a lot!

[@barryispuzzled]

The cameraman believes that at the start of every question is a good time to alter the shot. Leave it alone!

[@Wanderlust246]

😂😂😂

[@science212]

Great person.

[@francesbrisco776]

had a very calm way of speaking

[@mouradgridach3185]

Woooow what a video of Marvin, Thanks for sharing. One of the influential people in my life

[@devorah935]

Really 🤔

[@skoolboymyk8900]

I love this

[@sorinichim4737]

He was a truly visionary man

[@WallaceRoseVincent]

Was he related to Hyman Minsky (the economist who conceive of the Minsky moment)?

[@pdd3]

Best ASMR video

[@potterj09]

For a awhile some suspected he was the Unabomber lol

[@edwardjones2202]

Probably because he doesn't like Chomsky 😆

[@telesniper2]

This guy was caught on a weird island resort doing really weird stuff

[@CoreyChambersLA]

In 1990, Marvin Minsky astutely describes the challenges and difficulties of Artificial Intelligence at the time: not enough people working on it; limited public interest, limited tools, not enough money being invested in it; limited computational technology, insuffienct publishing of accomplishments and failures etc

[@Neo.467.35]

The Great Marvin Minsky

[@holahola-gp6vd]

what was so great? if you look at his predictions from early 60' he was wrong at almost everything .i dont mean to disrespect him because he is smart guy. i work at the A.I field and trust me it is mostly hype that the media is selling for nerds and star wars fans. in reality A.I is just a bunch of equations that can do some cool things and recognize some patterns but thats about it.

[@waitwhat6882]

@@holahola-gp6vd and yet he is the famous one. Not you. Where is your credibility? I love all the people who forever criticize everything and everyone and sound so bitter.

[@holahola-gp6vd]

@@waitwhat6882 look,there was nothing bitter about my comment.i was not saying anything personal about the guy.i was talking only about his predictions,wich alot of times where really out of reality touch. people who may criticize someone doesn't necessarily mean that they are bitter. there is nothing wrong about saying the truth,especially if it was said technically. is your world view so narrow that every critical comment someone will make,makes him bitter or hater?

[@StoicHacker]

@@holahola-gp6vd you shouldn't work in the field.

[@holahola-gp6vd]

@@StoicHacker well i work at the field.and im good.diffrence between me and others is that i can predict better what will happen in the future of a.i. I love to argue and bet with my friends at work for long time about certian predictions made and guess what?? I almost always right. Exactly like i was right about self driving cars way back at 2013 when evrybody was sure that by 2020 we will see level 5 autonomous cars and most will be sleeping on there way to work.get in the real world.

[@waitwhat6882]

Can’t even imagine being as intelligent as him and Paul Samuelson

[@peterb9407]

Yeah, now imagine what went on in Richard Feynmans head 😂

[@johnqpublic2718]

WGBH Boston

[@davidwilkie9551]

Cause-effect Quantum-fields conglomerations in/of QM-TIME Completeness Actuality implies that embodiment manifestation is basically the Antenna of AM-FM time-timing modulation sync-duration-integration Communication in pulse-evolution.., ie no separation of conscious awareness of mind and body only probabilistic correlations in superimposed density-intensity at the individual Quiescent floating point coherence-cohesion module-ation for the unique in uniqueness state-of-mind we affect holistically.

[@badhombre4942]

Brilliant, though he misjudged the importance of maths.

[@awenir]

As a mathmatician... no, he did not. He pointed out its flaws and you do not agree. Different than misjudging.

[@Wanderlust246]

@@awenirlove this answer

[@elamaru9355]

so who are you if you let go of all thoughts

[@cybco]

Did Marvin totally miss out on music, on language, and on art? What the heck? Just taking into consideration that of language, clearly is a computerized methodology (process) of capturing and describing complex events only not on the scale of the computerized processing. Computers only changed the speed, accuracy and scale. It didn't invent anything new!!!! The next quantum leap prior to the transistor was the printing press, then audio and video recording all of which were computerized ways of capturing processes dynamically with a higher degree of complexity. Had he said, only since 1950 the capturing and processing of processes have never before happened on the degree that computers allow, then yes, I would agree.

[@fitmesslife]

Abstractionism 101

[@awenir]

I am a bit disappointed on his approach to spirituality. That's just sad, you can't measure it with instruments so there is nothing like that existent. Yeah, it ain't that simple. And I come from a scientific angle, rather, I love science. Alas, I will not deny the limits of measureability as an argument to prove something possibly non-physical exists or not. I refer to the knowledge argument, which one should look up. Another thing that reminds me of this is the problem of dark matter. Which might actually be a glitch in our physical model of the universe. RIP Marv.

[@sup.blud.]

You think that someone who invented new technological ideas you'd think he would understand that there is always the possibly of such an instrument not existing _YET_

[@kedonsiemen]

1:08:23

[@edimalo7061]

The way his eyes dart around is a little creepy😬😬

[@fairweatherfriends.]

Yeah there’s some rumors about him unfortunately.

[@edimalo7061]

@@quantum_ocean I find it creepy you don’t think the way his eyes dart around is creepy😂

[@christopherhamilton3621]

That’s called projection, Edimalo. Look it up…

[@craigslitzer4857]

He's probably looking at each person in the room. Making eye contact with the camera man, the interviewer, and the sound man.

[@franciscoochoa8976]

When one gives solutions (answers) to questions, some folk process questions as images in space (in their mind, with their physical eyes moving - which is in your statement). Common answers (an average person would give) don't require much thought, the answers he's giving require an above average level of abstraction (as far as I can guess) mentally. So it's just a matter of course that when he's modifying an abstract answer in his mind to answer the interviewers question, the dude eyes are moving - it's all good, the guys answers are on point. Some, if not most people don't do that but that's okay. :)

[@TheoneandonlyEETFUK]

55:20 NICE!