I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.