The MIT Artificial Intelligence Project has a variety of goals all bound together by search for principles of intelligent behavior. Among our immediate goals are to develop systems with practical applications for: Visually-controlled automatic manipulation and physical world problem-solving, machine understanding of natural language text and narrative, and advanced applied mathematics. The long-range goals are concerned with simplifying, unifying and extending the techniques of heuristic programming. We expect the results of our work to: make it easier to write and debug large heuristic programs, develop packaged collections of knowledge about many different kinds of things, lending to programs with more resourcefulness, understanding and common sense", and identify and sharpen certain principles for programming intelligence.
good historical reference on the origin of the micro-world concept in AI. The idea is to create a limited world that would be small enough to manage for an experimental artificial agent to cope with, but rich enough to provide meaningfull "knowledge". The example discussed is in the domain of understanding narrative. The problem is to draw a line around the minimal body of knowledge needed to understand a childrens' story.
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%1 citeulike:511473
%A Minsky, Marvin
%A Papert, Seymour
%D 1970
%K AI historical history mathgamespatterns memos microworlds mit narrative
%T Proposal to ARPA for Research on Artificial Intelligence at MIT, 1970-1971 (AIM-185)
%U https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5866
%X The MIT Artificial Intelligence Project has a variety of goals all bound together by search for principles of intelligent behavior. Among our immediate goals are to develop systems with practical applications for: Visually-controlled automatic manipulation and physical world problem-solving, machine understanding of natural language text and narrative, and advanced applied mathematics. The long-range goals are concerned with simplifying, unifying and extending the techniques of heuristic programming. We expect the results of our work to: make it easier to write and debug large heuristic programs, develop packaged collections of knowledge about many different kinds of things, lending to programs with more resourcefulness, understanding and common sense", and identify and sharpen certain principles for programming intelligence.
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abstract = {The MIT Artificial Intelligence Project has a variety of goals all bound together by search for principles of intelligent behavior. Among our immediate goals are to develop systems with practical applications for: Visually-controlled automatic manipulation and physical world problem-solving, machine understanding of natural language text and narrative, and advanced applied mathematics. The long-range goals are concerned with simplifying, unifying and extending the techniques of heuristic programming. We expect the results of our work to: make it easier to write and debug large heuristic programs, develop packaged collections of knowledge about many different kinds of things, lending to programs with more resourcefulness, understanding and common sense", and identify and sharpen certain principles for programming intelligence.},
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author = {Minsky, Marvin and Papert, Seymour},
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comment = {good historical reference on the origin of the micro-world concept in AI. The idea is to create a limited world that would be small enough to manage for an experimental artificial agent to cope with, but rich enough to provide meaningfull "knowledge". The example discussed is in the domain of understanding narrative. The problem is to draw a line around the minimal body of knowledge needed to understand a childrens' story.},
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month = {December},
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timestamp = {2007-07-25T11:43:55.000+0200},
title = {Proposal to ARPA for Research on Artificial Intelligence at MIT, 1970-1971 (AIM-185)},
url = {https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5866},
year = 1970
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