Ask HN: What is the relevance today of Minsky’s “Society of Mind” concept?

Minsky wrote this book in 1986, towards the end of his very long career thinking about how to build intelligent machines. For a basic overview, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind You can find a complete pdf of the book here: http://www.acad.bg/ebook/ml/Society%20of%20Mind.pdf My question to the HN community is, has all this work become irrelevant given recent progress in machine learning, particularly with Transformer […]