[Mitworld] New: Minsky on The Emotion Machine, Frederick on Decisions

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 8 | October 24, 2007
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[EMOTION MACHINE: COMMONSENSE THINKING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,
 AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN MIND]

SPEAKER:
Marvin Minsky
Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/484/>

[QUOTE]
"There is no robot that can put a pillow in a pillowcase."
-- Marvin Minsky


EVENT HOST: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) <http://www.csail.mit.edu/>

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[WHEN I'M 64: DISCOUNTING, TIME PREFERENCE, AND PERSONAL IDENTITY]

SPEAKER:
Shane Frederick
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor, and Associate Professor of
Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/477/>

[QUOTE]
"Most studies imply the future is valued less....The assumption is
people discount future utility the way bankers discount future streams
of income. But sequence studies imply the opposite.... Good things move
forward in time."
-- Shane Frederick


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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Center for International Studies Starr Forum presents

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