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Minsky’s 1961 paper describes learned and planned improvements to problem-solving search. Copy claim link
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Date 1961-01 · publication Wording attested Only in a later, undated copy. Later MIT-hosted HTML transcription, retrieved 2026-10-06; not compared with the journal pages. Claimed date 1960-10-24. Receipt date given in the transcription; the submitted version was not retrieved. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The improvements concern problem-solving search in general, not research that advances machine intelligence. Scope and limits Not AI-automated AI research.
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Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (MIT-hosted transcription) ↗ Proceedings of the IRE · 1961-01
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Paraphrase Learning and planning make problem-solving search more efficient.
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Source details and check notes Authors Marvin Minsky Version Later HTML transcription; introduction and summary of the argument read by the pre-1996 candidate search. Transcription hosted at web.mit.edu. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Marvin Minsky, "Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence", Proceedings of the IRE 49 (1961). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Paraphrase from the pre-1996 candidate search. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Issue month of Proceedings of the IRE 49 (1).
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