I bet the human brain is a kludge.

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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

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There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

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Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

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Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

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I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

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