Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind

By George N. Reeke Jr.. 1991

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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What can the brain teach us about building artificial intelligence? (2016, background): “The best way to capture these structural features is to imagine the brain as a society of agents (Minsky 1986), very heterogeneous and communicating through their common neural base by means of shared protocols, much like the Internet.”
Active Long Term Memory Networks (2016, background): “The authors [47] also present a novel self-distillation framework remembering the Minskian Sequence of Teaching Selves [49].”
Pretrained Encyclopedia: Weakly Supervised Knowledge-Pretrained Language Model (2019, background): “Knowledge-Enhanced NLP Models Background knowledge has been considered an indispensable part of language understanding (Fillmore et al., 1976; Minsky, 1988).”
Coordination Among Neural Modules Through a Shared Global Workspace (2021, background): “…focus in AI was much less on learning and more on constructing articulated, multi-component architectures and examining how intelligence might emerge from interactions among this collection of simple, functionally specialized components (Fodor, 1983; Braiten-berg, 1986; Minsky, 1988; Brooks, 1991).”
Toward an Integration of Deep Learning and Neuroscience (2016, background): “For example, Minsky and Papert’s work on the Society of Mind (Minsky, 1988)— and more broadly on ideas of genetically staged and internally bootstrapped development in connectionist systems (Minsky, 1977)—emphasizes the need for a system of internal monitors and critics, specialized communication…”
Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective (2000, background): “The majority of issues that arose pertained to the parallelization and synchronization of the different processors.”
Storytelling as an Instructional Method: Definitions and Research Questions. (2009, unknown): “Churchland, 1995; P.S. Churchland & Sejnowski, 1992; Clark, 1993, 1997, 2003; Elman et al., 1996; Gee, 1992; Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group, 1995; Minsky, 1985; Margolis, 1987, 1993; Nolan, 1994; Rumelhart, McClelland, and the PDP Research Group, 1986).”
The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence (1993, background): “When enough complexity is reached, a large collection of interacting behavior systems may resemble a society of interacting agents [84].”
The Illusion of Conscious Will (2018, background): “In the more contemporary phrasing of Marvin Minsky (1985): “None of us enjoys the thought that what we do depends on processes we do not know; we prefer to attribute our choices to volition, will, or self-control … .”
Modeling Field Theory of Higher Cognitive Functions (2007, background): “Whereas pattern recognition and artificial intelligence algorithms of the recent past would not know how to relate to this (Newell, 1983; Minsky, 1988; Carpenter and Grossberg, 1987) resonance model and the MFT dynamics, both describe imagination as an inseparable part of thinking.”
Learning in spiking neural networks by reinforcement of stochastic synaptic transmission. (2003, background): “In games (Minsky, 1988; Baum, 1999), then it seems plausible that the brain is a collection of tiny modules, each of which like checkers or backgammon, there is a huge temporal delayseparatingthewin-lose-drawreinforcementsignal has the capability to learn from reinforcement.”
Sentic patterns: Dependency-based rules for concept-level sentiment analysis (2014, background): “In the model, the vertical dimension represents the intensity of the different affective dimensions, i.e., their level of activation, while the radial dimension represents K-lines [21] that can activate conﬁgurations of the mind, which can either last just a few seconds or years.”
Testing a social-cognitive model of moral behavior: the interactive influence of situations and moral identity centrality. (2009, background): “Furthermore, based on the principle that “neurons that fire together, wire together” (Kihlstrom & Klein, 1994; Minsky, 1988), the moral self-schema of someone for whom moral identity is highly central should be activated more strongly and more frequently than the other self-schemas comprising his…”