Mind over machine
Subtitle: the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the computer
By: Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus, with Tom Athanasiou.
Contributors: Dreyfus, Stuart E.; Athanasiou, Tom.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computers; Expert systems (Computer science)
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 207-223.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xvii; title: Prologue: "The Heart Has Its Reasons That Reason Does Not Know"
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Five Steps from Novice to Expert
pagenum: 16; label: 2
title: Logic Machines and Their Limits
pagenum: 52; label: 3
title: Artificial Intelligence: From High Hopes to Sober Reality
pagenum: 67; label: 4
title: Expert Systems Versus Intuitive Expertise
pagenum: 101; label: 5
title: Computers in the Classroom: Tools, Tutors, and Tutees
pagenum: 122; label: 6
title: Managerial Art and Management Science
pagenum: 158; title: Conclusion: People That (Sic) Think
pagenum: 193; title: Epilogue: Rational Animals Are Obsolete
pagenum: 202; title: Notes
pagenum: 207; title: Index
pagenum: 225