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“ General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. ”

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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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Marvin Minsky Vision Moving Evolution

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

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Marvin Minsky Vision Planning Problems

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

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Marvin Minsky Good Vision Problem

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

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