Marvin Minsky Didn’t Live To See Artificial General Intelligence. You Might Not Either. | by Riva-Melissa Tez | Medium

As we mourn the loss of Marvin Minsky, one of the founding fathers of Artificial Intelligence, let us look at the significance of what he started. AI is an undertaking that should be considered one of the most significant attempts to improve the human condition. Yet, much more of today’s collective intelligence is spent designing advertising on social media than on the advancement of humanity through AI. Why have we been so ineffective at solving the challenges set fourth by Minsky and his colleagues 60 years ago? Let us look at technical challenges and the broken incentive structures that limit our success and find out how AI research could potentially dream bigger than improving the data processing applications of today. ___ Marvin Minsky was perhaps the most influential of the researchers attending the now famous Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1956). Organized by Dartmouth’s John McCarthy, the summer program brought together leading minds to develop ‘artificial

As we mourn the loss of Marvin Minsky, one of the founding fathers of Artificial Intelligence, let us look at the significance of what he started. AI is an undertaking that should be considered one of the most significant attempts to improve the human condition. Yet, much more of today’s collective intelligence is spent designing advertising on social media than on the advancement of humanity through AI. Why have we been so ineffective at solving the challenges set fourth by Minsky and his colleagues 60 years ago? Let us look at technical challenges and the broken incentive structures that lim