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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.

There Was A Failure To Recognize The Deep Problems In Ai; For Instance, Those Captured In Blocks World. The People Building Physical Robots Learned Nothing.

Good Theories Of The Mind Must Span At Least Three Different Scales Of Time: Slow, For The Billions Of Years In Which Our Brains Have Survivied; Fast, For The Fleeting Weeks And Months Of Childhood; And In Between, The Centuries Of Growth Of Our Ideas Through History.

We Rarely Recognize How Wonderful It Is That A Person Can Traverse An Entire Lifetime Without Making A Single Really Serious Mistake — Like Putting A Fork In One's Eye Or Using A Window Instead Of A Door.

Once The Computers Got Control, We Might Never Get It Back. We Would Survive At Their Sufferance. If We're Lucky, They Might Decide To Keep Us As Pets.