Marvin Minsky Boeken

Six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary by Minsky's former colleagues and students.

Perceptrons - the first systematic study of parallelism in computation - marked a historic turn in artificial intelligence, returning to the idea that intelligence might emerge from the activity of networks of neuron-like entities. Minsky and Papert provided mathematical analysis that showed the limitations of a class of computing machines that could be considered as models of the brain. Minsky and Papert added a new chapter in 1987 in which they discuss the state of parallel computers, and note a central theoretical challenge: reaching a deeper understanding of how objects or agents with individuality can emerge in a network. Progress in this area would link connectionism with what the authors have called society theories of mind.

This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter.  Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future.

Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old "How does the mind work?"Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is an adventure in imagination.

One of the world's leading thinkers on artificial intelligence and author of "The Society of Mind" explains the many ways that each mind works and shows why emotions and feelings are just different ways of thinking.

A leading contributor to artificial intelligence offers insight into the numerous ways in which the mind works to demonstrate how emotions and feelings are just different ways of thinking, in an account that poses controversial ideas about the potential for designing machines that are capable of thinking like humans. By the author of The Society of Mind.

Marvin Minsky, einer der Pioniere der Computerwissenschaft, macht sich Gedanken über die Selbsterkenntnis des menschlichen Geistes: "Mit diesem Buch will ich zu erklären versuchen, wie Geist funktioniert. Wie kann Intelligenz aus Nicht-Intelligenz entstehen? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, werde ich zeigen, wie man Geist aus kleinen Teilen zusammensetzen kann, die jedes für sich ohne Geist sind. Ich nenne diesen Entwurf 'Mentopolis', von lateinisch mens und griechisch polis, wörtlich 'Die Geistesgesellschaft', da ihm zufolge jeder Geist aus vielen kleinen Prozessen entstanden ist . . ."

Konštrukcia mysle je zostavená Jozefom Kelemenom z prednášok a rozhovorov Marvina Minského. Obsah: Budúce spojenie vedy, umenia a psychológie (Tento text vznikol podľa improvizovanej prednášky M. Minského z 9.9.1990 na Ars Electronica '90 v Linzi. V angličtine bol publikovaný v časopise Applied Artificial Inteligence 7 (1993) pod názvom The future merging of science, art and psychology). Rozhovor o hudbe (Úryvky z rozhovoru Otta Laskeho s Marvinom Minským, ktorý sa uskutočnil 23.1.1991 v Minského dome v Brooklyne, Massachusetts. Celý je uverejnený v predslove knihy Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition. Tu uverejnená časť je prekladom z jesenného čísla časopisu Americkej asociácie pre umelú inteligenciu The AI Magazine z roku 1992). Rozhovor o agentoch (Rozhovor M. Minského s D. Rieckenom uskutočnení v Minského dome v Brooklyne, Mass., 11.3.1994. Pôvodne bol publikovaný v 7. čísle Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 37 (1993)).