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What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason View Larger Image | Hubert L. Dreyfus
MIT Press, Hardcover, Published October 1992, 354 pages, ISBN 0262540673 | List Price: $32.00
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When it was first published in 1972, Hubert Dreyfus's
manifesto on the inherent inability of disembodied machines to mimic higher
mental functions caused an uproar in the artificial intelligence community.
The world has changed since then. Today it is clear that "good old-fashioned
AI," based on the idea of using symbolic representations to produce general
intelligence, is in decline (although several believers still pursue its pot
of gold), and the focus of the Al community has shifted to more complex models
of the mind. It has also become more common for AI researchers to seek out and
study philosophy. For this edition of his now classic book, Dreyfus has added
a lengthy new introduction outlining these changes and assessing the paradigms
of connectionism and neural networks that have transformed the field.
At a time when researchers were proposing grand plans for general problem solvers
and automatic translation machines, Dreyfus predicted that they would fail because
their conception of mental functioning was naive, and he suggested that they
would do well to acquaint themselves with modern philosophical approaches to
human beings. What Computers Can't Do was widely attacked but quietly
studied. Dreyfus's arguments are still provocative and focus our attention once
again on what it is that makes human beings unique.
About the Author
Hubert L. Dreyfus, who is Professor of Philosophy at
the University of California, Berkeley, is also the author of Being-in-the-World.
A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I.
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