instead, that inside each mind work many different agents. (The idea of societies of agents (Minsky 1977; 1980a; 19806) originated in my work with Seymour Papert.) All we really need to know about agents is this: each agent knows what happens to some others, but little of what happens to the rest. It means

ticipated: Douglas Rushkoff, Marc D. Hauser, Stewart Brand, Jim O'Donnell, Jaron Lanier, Bruce Sterling, Roger Schank, George Dyson, Howard Gardner, Seymour Papert, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson, Kai Krause, ans Pamela McCorduck. In 2005, George Dyson noted in his prescient EDGE essay "Turing's Cathedral": My v

ticipated: Douglas Rushkoff, Marc D. Hauser, Stewart Brand, Jim O'Donnell, Jaron Lanier, Bruce Sterling, Roger Schank, George Dyson, Howard Gardner, Seymour Papert, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson, Kai Krause, ans Pamela McCorduck. In 2005, George Dyson noted in his prescient EDGE essay "Turing's Cathedral": My v

Cynthia Solomon is a computer scientist, educator and an inventor of the Logo programming language for children. She has been engaged -- along with Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and others -- in foundational research on children constructing knowledge with computers. Holding an MS in Computer Science from Bo

ter need to face. The 1=63 paper, "Matter, Mind, and Models" addressed the problem of making self-a=are machines. In "Perceptrons," 1969, Minsky and Seymour Papert characteriz=d the capabilities and limitations of loop-free learning and pattern recogn=tion machines. In "A Framework for Representing Knowledge" (

HE EDGE QUESTION-2015 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK? You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking =bout something. —Seymour Papert What do I think about machines that think? I guess it depends on what =hey're supposed to be thinking about. I am clearly in the camp =f people who

h. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the late sixties, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert wrote a book titled Perceptrons, in which they basically proved that perceptrons couldn’t do anything interesting, which is correct. Perceptrons coul

h. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the late sixties, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert wrote a book titled Perceptrons, in which they basically proved that perceptrons couldn’t do anything interesting, which is correct. Perceptrons coul