It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
Marvin MinskyArtificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.
Marvin MinskyThere was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
Marvin MinskyBut just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.
Marvin Minsky