Health and the human mind

TED2003 · 13:33 · Filmed Feb 2003

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Jeff Hawkins: How brain science will change computing

Listen closely — Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.

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Marvin Minsky

AI pioneer

Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence — and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and computational linguistics are legendary and far-reaching. Full bio