The World Motivation
With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.
“With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.”
With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more.
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.
We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.
Computers and smart devices are among the greatest intellectual gifts ever created for man but, if not balanced with human contact, may offer little to develop one's heart.
Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.