Meet Marvin Minsky: MIT professor who predicted today's Anthropic-style multi-agent AI nearly 40 years ago and became the founding father of artificial intelligence
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Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works.
In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one all-powerful brain but the result of countless simple "agents" working together, each performing a specialised task.
Nearly four decades later, as companies such as Anthropic increasingly explore multi-agent AI systems, his ideas have returned to the spotlight.
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Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works.
In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one all-powerful brain but the result of countless simple "agents" working together, each performing a specialised task.
Nearly four decades later, as companies such as Anthropic increasingly explore multi-agent AI systems, his ideas have returned to the spotlight.