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Mind over machine

the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the computer

by Hubert L. Dreyfus

Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, Ph. D., archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. It's important to emphasize that he doesn't believe that AI is fundamentally impossible, only that the current research program is fatally flawed. Instead, he argues that to get a device (or devices) with human-like intelligence would require them to have a human-like being in the world, which would require them to have bodies more or less like ours, and social acculturation (i.e. a society) more or less like ours. This helps to explain the practical problems in implementing artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Subjects

Expert systems (Computer science),Computers,Artificial intelligence,Künstliche Intelligenz,Systèmes experts (Informatique),Intelligenz,Computer,Artificial Intelligence,Expert systems (computer science),Ordinateurs,Systèmes experts (informatique),Intelligence artificielle,Human engineering,Q335 .d73x 1986b,700=aacr2

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Table of Contents

Prologue : "The heart has its reasons that reason does not know"

Five steps from novice to expert

Logic machines and their limits

Artificial intelligence : from high hopes to sober reality

Expert systems versus intuitive expertise

Computers in the classroom : tools, tutors, and tutees

Managerial art and management science

Conclusion : people that [sic] think

Epilogue : rational animals are obsolete.

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 207-223.
Includes index.

Published in

New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class

006.3

Library of Congress

Q335 .D73 1986

The Physical Object

Format

Hardcover

Pagination

xviii, 231 p. ;

Number of pages

231

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