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We spent a lot of time walking around Yerevan and talking about things, but he... he wasn’t interested in consciousness yet because I guess this must have been in 1960s.... late 1960s or 70s. I don't know. He was still interested in genes.
Marvin Minsky (1927-2016) was one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence, founding the MIT AI lab in 1970. He also made many contributions to the fields of mathematics, cognitive psychology, robotics, optics and computational linguistics. Since the 1950s, he had been attempting to define and explain human cognition, the ideas of which can be found in his two books, The Emotion Machine and The Society of Mind. His many inventions include the first confocal scanning microscope, the first neural network simulator (SNARC) and the first LOGO 'turtle'.
Title: Discussing ideas with Francis Crick
Listeners: Christopher Sykes
Christopher Sykes is a London-based television producer and director who has made a number of documentary films for BBC TV, Channel 4 and PBS.
Tags: Yeravan, Armenia, Francis Crick
Duration: 29 seconds
Date story recorded: 29-31 Jan 2011
Date story went live: 13 May 2011