This article details an iterative process of using ChatGPT to explore the parallels between Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind" and Anthropic's research on Large Language Models, specifically Claude Haiku. The user experimented with different prompts to refine the AI's output, navigating issues like model confusion (GPT-2 vs. Claude) and overly conversational tone. Ultimately, prompting the AI with direct source materials (Minsky’s books and Anthropic's paper) yielded the most insightful analysis, highlighting potential connections like the concept of "A and B brains" within both frameworks.
Henry Minsky, son of AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, co-founded Leela AI, an MIT-connected startup using novel visual intelligence to optimize manufacturing production lines through video analysis.
This article discusses the MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab's 'Tourist Policy' and how it impacted students' access to its resources. As a high school student in Maryland, the author shares their experience of using the lab's PDP-10s over the ARPANET and how it inspired them to learn and contribute to the MIT community.
Combined with the growing trend of multimodality, or models that combine language, image, and other types of capabilities, we may see a trend of AI models operating more like a committee of different components rather than a monolithic block. This approach actually has many conceptual similarities to a set of interesting ideas described by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Paypert from the early days of AI.
