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From: ed298-ak@violet.berkeley.edu (Edouard Lagache)
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Subject: Re: The Success of AI (Analysis of AI lack of progress).
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Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 18:34:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 18 18:34:36 1987
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Keywords: Philosophy of mind, Rationalist tradition.


	Anyone interested in the question of A.I. success (or lack of it)
	should have a look at Hubert Dreyfus's work.  He has written two
	books which are critical of present A.I. methodologies, and make
	a purswasive argument for why present approaches to A.I. won't
	work.

	The books are:

		What Computers Can't Do; the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
		(Harper & Row, 1979)

		Mind over Machine; The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise
		in the Era of the Computer
		(co-authored with Stuart Dreyfus and Tom Athanasiou, The
		 Free Press, 1986).

	It perhaps goes without saying that Hubert Dreyfus is one of the 
	most disliked persons of A.I. researchers.  However, no one in this
	field can really afford to not be aware of Dreyfus's concerns.

						Edouard Lagache
						School of Education
						U.C. Berkeley
						lagache@violet.berkeley.edu