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Hubert L. Dreyfus on AI

3 quotes from Hubert L. Dreyfus on the wall, 1972 to 2007, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), Harper & Row.

1. 2007

2. The original robot is already in a museum

   2007·#science#hype

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   Berkeley philosopher Hubert Dreyfus on Cog, the humanoid robot project of Rodney Brooks and Daniel Dennett at MIT, in a 2007 paper for the journal Artificial Intelligence.

   Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) · Why Heideggerian AI Failed and how Fixing it would Require making it more Heideggerian

3. The whole AI research program was degenerating

   2007·#philosophy#science

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   Berkeley philosopher Hubert Dreyfus recalling his critique of symbolic AI, begun after RAND invited him in 1963 to evaluate Newell and Simon's work, in a 2007 paper for the journal Artificial Intelligence.

   Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) · Why Heideggerian AI Failed and how Fixing it would Require making it more Heideggerian

4. 1972

5. Subintelligent human beings

   1972·#philosophy#hype

   ContextWho else?

   Hubert Dreyfus, philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, published this critique of artificial intelligence research in 1972, building on his earlier RAND paper. Bruce Buchanan of Stanford reviewed it in November 1972.

   Harper & Row · What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason

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