Mind Over Machine
the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the computer
by Hubert L. Dreyfus · first published 1986
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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 ou
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In 1988 Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus released a paperback version of their previously published "Mind over Machine" book, in which they mostly spend time debunking the myth that expert systems and rule-based programs are ever going to have "intelligence" on par with human brain. The book is an interesting read in…
on “Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck” ↗A detailed an well argumented framework to be found in Chapter 1: Five Steps from Novice to Expert Mind Over Machine by Hubert Dreyfus http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Machine-Hubert-Dreyfus/dp/00...
on “The 1,000-hour rule (2009)” ↗…mentors. All of these phases have a plateau that you have to push through, and all of them have different mentors, often those who are stuck on their own plateaus. If you want books, I recommend, A. Mind Over Machine, Dreyfus; B. Mastery, Greene; C. The Art of Learning, Waitzkin.
on “Ask HN: How do I improve my productivity?” ↗You might find this interesting: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Machine-Hubert-Dreyfus/dp/0... It’s a critique of AI but gives a thorough take on the progress from novice to expert.
on “Trying to study textbooks effectively: a year of experimentation” ↗My learning strategies are very personal, subtle, and hard to explain. I believe I build most of them a long time ago after reading Mind over Machine [1]. It's a critique of the, back then, glorious promises of AI, but it has a very thorough take on what learning is and is not. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Machine-Hubert-Dreyfus/dp/0...
on “Ask HN: What's your learning strategy?” ↗Hubert Dreyfus in his 1986 book "Mind Over Machine": > The digital computer, when programmed to operate by taking a problem apart into features and combining them step by step according to inference rules, operates as a machine—a logic machine. However,…
on “Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized” ↗…specifically the books What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence published in 1972, and the revised What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason, published in 1992, and Mind over Machine, from 1986.
on “AI Is No Match for the Quirks of Human Intelligence” ↗…https://www.minotavrosbooks.com/pages/books/011217/tony-solo... Other's also voiced their concerns at the time: Sherry Turkle https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Turkle_Sherry_The_Second_Se... Tom Athanasiou ghostwrote Hubert Dreyfus's book 'Mind over Machine' (1986) https://www.ecoequity.org/about/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus%27s_views_on_ar... Athanasiou, Tom (1985). “Artificial intelligence: cleverly disguised politics”. In: Compulsive…
on “Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia” ↗…AI: Can machines act intelligently?', and subsection 'The argument from informality'. The section mentions the books What Computers can't do (1972) and What Computers still can't do (1992), as well as Mind over Machine (1986). Unfortunately, this section completely misunderstands the critique of AI that Dreyfus exposes in those books. The whole section is misleading, obfuscating or tergiversing the critique from Dreyfus…
on “"They're made out of weights"” ↗…1972 he published What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence, a 3rd edition published in 1992 was titled What Computers Still Can't Do. He also co-wrote, with his brother Stuart, Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer If you're not up for a whole book, there a 1965 paper titled "Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence" available at https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2006/P3244...…
on “Ask HN: Is there a mental task at which average humans can still beat computers?” ↗