What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason By Hubert L. Dreyfus ISBN: 9780262540674 ASIN: B00A2LR6YU Published: 1992 Number of Pages: 429 Edition: Updated Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: MIT Press Description: 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.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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Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: Q335
   - Classification number: Q'335'D74'1992
   - Item number: .D74 1992
   - Item number: .D74 1992eb

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 20
   - Classification number: 006.3

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Dreyfus, Hubert L
   - Personal name: Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Title Statement
   - Title: What computers still can't do
   - Title: What computers still can't do :
   - Remainder of title: a critique of artificial reason /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.:  Hubert L. Dreyfus.
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Hubert L. Dreyfus
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Hubert L. Dreyfus.
   - Medium: [electronic resource] :

Edition Statement: Rev ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cambridge :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cambridge, MA :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cambridge, Mass. :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cambridge, Mass. ;
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: London :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: MIT Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1992
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1992.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1992
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1992,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1992.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1993.
   - Date of manufacture: 1993 printing.

Projected Publication Date: 9210

Physical Description
   - Extent: liii, 354 p.
   - Extent: liii, 354 p. ;
   - Extent: liii,354p. ;
   - Dimensions: 21 cm
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.

General Note: Previous ed.: 1979.: Rev. ed. of: What computers can't do, 1979.: Rev. ed. of: What computers can't do. 1979: Rev. ed. of: What computers can't do. 1979.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Bibliogr.
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary, etc.: Rev. ed. of What computers can't do, 1979.

Reproduction Note
   - Type of reproduction: Electronic reproduction.
   - Place of reproduction: Boulder, Colo. :
   - Agency responsible for reproduction: NetLibrary,
   - Date of reproduction: 2001.
   - Note about reproduction: Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries
   - Note about reproduction: Available via World Wide Web.

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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Artificial intelligence
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Artificial intelligence.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Computers.

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   - Personal name: Dreyfus, Hubert L.
   - Title of a work: What computers can't do.

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Additional Physical Form Entry
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   - Record control number: (DLC) 92027715
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