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Hubert Dreyfus on the Impossibility of Artificial Intelligence: Consequences and Implications

Aghili Dehkordi, Bamdad | 2014

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 47020 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Sefidkhosh, Maysam; Taqavi, Mostafa
  7. Abstract:
  8. Hubert Dreyfus other than being a prominent philosopher is amongst early critics of classical artificial intelligence project which was initialized during 1955-1960. Challenging the rationalist presuppositions of this paradigm, he foresaw various situations where mechanical artificial intelligence based upon modeling the world through symbolic representation and mimicking reason by formalized rules would fail to deliver even remotely similar outputs in digital computers as in human though process and problem solving ability.Twenty years later it became obvious for AI researchers that obstacles like frame problem or lack of common sense would follow their projects no matter what computing power the possess. After the boom of AI was over shadowed by numerous failures in most of AI projects, some researchers gradually started to pursue a rather epistemological approach towards simulating haman behavior which although is very crued by according to dreyfus, it demonstrates some important adjustment. Notions such as Heidegger’s readiness-at-hand, situatedness and being-in-the-world and Merlau-Ponty’s intentional-arc and embodiment have started to be considered the foundation of achieving human like intelligence and are followed in new paradigm of Heideggerian AI. Dreyfus discovers the roots of rationalism in ancient Greeks from scorates and Plato and continues his critiques to functionalism and computationalism approaches in modern analytical tradition. This thesis is a survey of these dialogues
  9. Keywords:
  10. Artificial Intelligence ; Cognitive Science ; Hubert Dreyfus Philosophy ; Symbolic Representation ; Martin Heidegger Philosophy ; Murice Merleau-Ponty Philosophy

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