Turing's 1950 paper didn't just pose the profound question, "Can machines think?". It ignited a quest to build AI technology ...

For example, the idea of “decentralized AI” echoes some of the work of Marvin Minsky himself in his book, “Society of mind.” ...

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 ...

It was the brainchild of four American computer scientists—John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon—and brought together some of the brightest minds in computer ...

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.