Marvin Minsky
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What's /sci/'s take on him?
>Minsky is often blamed for the fact that MIT's AI labs were always far below the quality of the other CS labs at MIT and why so many other schools were much more highly regarded in the field of AI over MIT. Calling him an AI pioneer is like calling Trump a business pioneer. He took credit for other's ideas and tanked his own organization taking it from the top to the middle. He was a much better science writer than a scientist. The only reason people believe he was a successful scientist (other than his position at MIT) was his successful books that were attractive to dreamers interested but uninvolved in the field. But those in the AI field thought he was a joke and his books were fiction. Even in death he finds a way to bring discredit to the field.
>Minsky is often blamed for the fact that MIT's AI labs were always far below the quality of the other CS labs at MIT and why so many other schools were much more highly regarded in the field of AI over MIT. Calling him an AI pioneer is like calling Trump a business pioneer. He took credit for other's ideas and tanked his own organization taking it from the top to the middle. He was a much better science writer than a scientist. The only reason people believe he was a successful scientist (other than his position at MIT) was his successful books that were attractive to dreamers interested but uninvolved in the field. But those in the AI field thought he was a joke and his books were fiction. Even in death he finds a way to bring discredit to the field.
