Artificial Intelligence Researcher

🇺🇸Marvin Minsky

Mathematics

1927–2016

"Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things."

🇺🇸Seymour Papert

Mathematics

1928–2016

"Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?"

🇺🇸John Searle

Philosophy

analytic philosophy

1932–2025

"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself."

🇺🇸Jeff Hawkins

Business

b. 1957

"I do two things: I design mobile computers and I study brains."

🇨🇦Geoffrey Hinton

Science

b. 1947

"I think political systems will use it to terrorize people."

🇬🇧I. J. Good

Mathematics

1916–2009

"There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally."

🇺🇸Stephen Wolfram

Science

b. 1959

"I think there is an infinite collection of these local pockets . We'll never run out..."

🇬🇧Kevin Warwick

Politics

b. 1954

"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change."

W. Ross Ashby

Science

1903–1972

"The concept of "variety" inseparable from that of "information."

"We define a semantic network as "the collection of all the relationships that concepts have to other concepts, to percepts, to procedures, and to motor mechanisms" of the knowledge."

🇺🇸John Henry Holland

Science

1929–2015

"Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do."

"An opportunity for cybernetics to change the course of the philosophy of mind was missed when intentionality was misinterpreted as "the providing of coded knowledge."

🇺🇸Eliezer Yudkowsky

Literature

effective altruism

b. 1979

"If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing."

🇺🇸Peter Stone

Sports

1954–2022

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

🇺🇸Hal Abelson

Technology

b. 1947

"Building the Infrastructure for Sustainable Educational Transformation" - MIT article concerning the Open Courseware program"

🇺🇸Terry Winograd

Philosophy

b. 1946

"The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction."

"New heuristic is used to prefer revision to premises that support relatively weak generalized beliefs."

"I've been out doing 22 miles this morning."

🇺🇸John McCarthy (computer scientist)

Science

1927–2011

"One can even conjecture that Lisp owes its survival specifically to the fact that its programs are lists, which everyone, including me, has regarded as a disadvantage."

🇺🇸J. C. R. Licklider

Science

1915–1990

"transmit information without transporting material"

🇺🇸Judea Pearl

Science

b. 1936

"A quantity Q is identifiable, given a set of assumptions A, iffor any two models M1 and M2 that satisfy A, we have"