One of the fathers of AI discusses education in a series of essays for the One Laptop per Child project. This last essay about psychology and learning to think is especially interesting, in my opinion.
The last section on "How it can help to think of oneself as a Machine" could really make a difference if we find ways to deploy the ideas to the mass. For now, applying the ideas to oneself can potentially change our own productivity significantly.
Well, that depends on your definition of AI, of course. But using some definitions, we are having it in several forms like search engines, self-driving cars, and question-answering machines.
Personally I think that it is unnecessarily agrandising language. That AI has since improved independently of Minsky does not really have anything to do with it.
Also it can be a fine line between having civil discussion and becoming an echo chamber where vigorous disagreement does not occur. Not that my original reply was the finest example of disagreement to grace this site.
The last section on "How it can help to think of oneself as a Machine" could really make a difference if we find ways to deploy the ideas to the mass. For now, applying the ideas to oneself can potentially change our own productivity significantly.
For other essays in the series, see http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/