Yann LeCun used to head research at Meta. He’s a pre-eminent voice in tech, and took the stage at Davos this January to talk about some of the dynamics in play here. In interviewing LeCun for segment ...

Marvin Minsky, one of the early pioneers of neural networks, died on Sunday at the age of 88. The obituary in the Washington Post paints a fantastic picture of his life. Minsky was friends with ...

In 1955, McCarthy, together with Marvin Minsky (from Harvard), Claude Shannon (Bell Labs), and Nathaniel Rochester (IBM), submitted a proposal for a summer workshop at Dartmouth College.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust historian Prof. Saul Friedlander and artificial intelligence pioneer Prof. Marvin Minsky are among the winners of the 2014 Dan David Prize, which annually bestows ...

He and Marvin Minsky, whose work was just as influential in the AI field, organized the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956. A few years later, with McCarthy on the ...

Top scientists debated how to tackle AI. Some, like influential academic Marvin Minsky, favoured a top-down approach: pre-programming a computer with the rules that govern human behaviour.

Can a machine be made to exhibit intelligence? An affirmative answer is indicated by programs that enable a computer to do such things as set up goals, make plans, consider hypotheses and ...

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