What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence

313 Pages·1978·11.23 MB·English

by  Hubert L. Dreyfus

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WHAT COMPUTERS CAN'T DO
A CRITIQUE
NEW YORK, EVANSTON, SAN FRANCISCO, LONDON
1817
WHAT COMPUTERS
DO
CAN'T
OF REASON
ARTIFICIAL
By Hubert L. Dreyfus
HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS
The following materials are used with permission:
The illustration on page 7 from Computersand Thought by Feigenbaum and Feldman.
Copyright 1963 byMcgraw-Hill, Inc.Usedwithpermission ofMcGraw-Hill BookCom-
pany.
QuotationsinChapter2fromRossQuillianreprintedfrom"SemanticMemory"inSeman-
ticInformation ProcessingeditedbyMarvinMinskyby permission ofTheM.I.T. Press,
Cambridge,Massachusetts.Copyright 1968bytheMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology.
Quotations in Chapter 2 from Thomas G. Evans reprinted from "A Program for the
SolutionofaClassofGeometric-AnalogyIntelligenceTestQuestions"in SemanticInfor-
mation Processing edited by Marvin Minsky by permission ofThe M.I.T. Press, Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts. Copyright 1968 by theMassachusetts InstituteofTechnology.
Quotations in Chapter7 from Anthony Oettingerreprintedfrom, andbypermission of,
American Documentation, July 1968, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 295-298. Copyright 1968 by
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