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A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.


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This collection had a strong influence on modern computational linguistics. Edited collection of essays about robotics with Introduction and Postscript by Minsky. The theory attempts to explain how what we call intelligence could be a product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts.

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