NEXT STORY
Will humans live longer and longer?
RELATED STORIES
NEXT STORY
Will humans live longer and longer?
RELATED STORIES
Views | Duration | ||
---|---|---|---|
141. The beginning of the Media Lab at MIT | 991 | 01:28 | |
142. Seymour Papert's theory of constructivism | 1203 | 01:24 | |
143. The Society of Mind theory developed from teaching | 1016 | 02:33 | |
144. Collaborations in my career | 953 | 02:35 | |
145. Working with Push Singh | 1172 | 01:23 | |
146. My relationship with Richard Feynman | 1 | 3860 | 02:25 |
147. 'The current climate crisis clouds visions of the future' | 1208 | 00:53 | |
148. Will humans live longer and longer? | 1141 | 02:02 | |
149. Consequences of a larger population and longer life | 1075 | 02:32 | |
150. The opportunities for research within Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 1114 | 03:00 |
Right now, it’s hard to clearly imagine the future because of the current crisis in climate predictions. 'Cause it looks like in the next 50 years we will pass some critical point and the oceans will rise and the weather will get worse and the food supply will diminish and all sorts of problems like that are facing us. And I would like to see basic research increased so that we can under... make better predictions about these things and fix them, but it’s hard to be very optimistic about it.
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: 'The current climate crisis clouds visions of the future'
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: climate, crisis, global warming, future
Duration: 54 seconds
Date story recorded: 29-31 Jan 2011
Date story went live: 13 May 2011