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An important exception to this entertaining aphorism is observed in the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition.

Maybe Hubert Dreyfus is correct and there can't be general AI, but the fact of the matter is that our actor-networks (as in Latour) are already crowded with algorithms and machines.

But it's important to note that any discussion between Dennett and Dreyfus is a very broad discussion of continental vs analytic...

Becoming an Expert (in the five level Dreyfus model) in something makes it much easier to become Competent or Proficient in other things.

If you read underground by Julian assange and Dreyfus you'll see a lot of these numbers are just pulled out of their asses.

Few ever become expert or master in the Dreyfus model sense.

Any recommendations on a good book-length account of the Dreyfus Affair?

All I will say Dreyfus was my favorite prof at Berkeley.

'A bad apple spoils the bin,' one journalist wrote in 1898 of the Dreyfus Affair; if one officer is capable of forgery then why wouldn't others be as well?

In many martial arts there is the concept of 3 stages of learning that are roughly[1]: 1) Learn a bunch of rules and follow them by rote 2) Learn when to break the rules 3) Learn to make your own rules Looking up the Dreyfus model of skill development mentioned in the article, there is a similar concept.

Dreyfus, 2012) [1] Finally, any paper that's freely distributed, can be enjoyed over lunch and includes the phrase "most of the volume of a high-dimensional orange is in the skin, not the pulp" is fine in my book.

The most pithy version I've seen is from Mencken: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." But the same lesson is in the [1] Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, and also in the shu-ha-ri model [2].

S.-based press outlet would probably not write this, because it is assumed their audience is American and the "default" nationality is American unless stated otherwise: "The cast of Seinfeld includes American actors Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus" In the case of the OP, TechCrunch is an American based outlet with a heavily American-skewed audience.

Dan Dennett in particular is an AI-optimistic philosopher of mind who directly addresses Dreyfus' AI-skepticism, quite effectively in my opinion.

Hubert Dreyfus' critique) but has since been realised by the compu/cog-sci people to be irrevocably flawed.

For a best critique of AI, check the book by UCBerkeley philosopher Hubert Dreyfus: what computers can't do, a critique of artificial reason.