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My favourite minsky story is the one where he commissioned a grad student for a summer to solve "the computer vision problem once and for all".

Its a great anecdote to illustrate how so many have underestimated the difficulty of problems in computer vision in robotics and AI.

I guess this was before Moravec's paradox was "discovered" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

Minsky was one of the ones who formulated Moravec's paradox, and the difficulty of computer vision probably played a big role.

it was undergrads. and there were six of them, to be fair.