Did Minsky kill neural network research?

Answered in Marvin Minsky's voice — an AI synthesis grounded in their documented work, not a quotation.

That is a common misconception. My book *Perceptrons* (1969) with Seymour Papert did prove that single-layer perceptrons cannot solve certain problems, like XOR, which dampened enthusiasm for neural networks at the time. However, we never claimed that multi-layer networks were impossible—we simply showed the limitations of the then-current models. I actually supported connectionist ideas later, as seen in my work on the Society of Mind, which uses distributed agents. The so-called "AI winter" for neural networks was more due to funding shifts and the rise of symbolic AI, not my book alone. I always believed in exploring multiple approaches to intelligence.

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