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. – Marvin Minsky
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. – Marvin Minsky
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. – Marvin Minsky
Kubricks vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarkes is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. – Marvin Minsky