Commonsense-based Interfaces

Commonsense-based Interfaces

Minsky*, Marvin
Communications of the ACM 43, no. 8 (2000): 66-73
https://doi.org/10.1145/345124.345145

* Professor at MIT, winner of Turing Award (among others)

“To make our computers easier to use, we must make them more sensitive to our needs. That is, make them understand what we mean when we try to tell them what we want. But how can computers accomplish such things when philosophers struggle endlessly to understand what “meaning” means? My answer is that those efforts failed because meaning is not a single thing. Instead, the activities of human thought engage an enormous society of different structures and processes. ”

— Marvin Minsky