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The author's argument against current artificial intelligence research is that it is fatally flawed [Passage 1]. He does not believe AI is fundamentally impossible, but rather that the current program is misguided [Passage 1].
Dreyfus contends that achieving human-like intelligence in a device would necessitate a human-like being in the world [Passage 1]. This, in turn, would require such devices to possess bodies similar to human bodies and undergo social acculturation akin to human societal experiences [Passage 1]. This is presented as an explanation for the practical difficulties encountered in implementing artificial intelligence algorithms [Passage 1].
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Title: Mind Over Machine by Hubert L. Dreyfus Description: Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such, they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus, Ph. D., archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. It's important to emphasize that he doesn't believe that AI is fundamentally impossible, only that the current research program is fatally flawed. Instead, he argues that to get a device (or devices) with human-like intelligence would require them to have a human-like being in the world,…