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Quotes from Perceptrons — Marvin Minsky

1927–2016 United States

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There is no reason to suppose that any of these virtues carry over to the many-layered version.

Perceptrons (1988)

No single-method learning scheme can operate efficiently for every possible task; we cannot expect any one type of machine to account for any large portion of human psychology.

Perceptrons (1988)

We do not see that any good can come of experiments which pay no attention to limiting factors that will assert themselves as soon as the small model is scaled up to a usable size.

Perceptrons (1988)

The moral was that one simply cannot learn enough by studying learning by itself; one also has to understand the nature of what one wants to learn.

Perceptrons (1988)

Perceptrons have been widely publicized as “pattern recognition” or “learning” machines and as such have been discussed in a large number of books, journal articles, and voluminous “reports.” Most of this writing...is without scientific value.

Perceptrons (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marvin Minsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.