From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Oct 24 09:14:34 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9ODEYNQ020045 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:14:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id l9ODERTM027925 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:14:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 17873 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2007 13:14:22 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Oct 2007 13:14:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 18900 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2007 13:13:45 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Oct 2007 13:13:45 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3640644 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:13:45 -0400 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 2475 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 4441 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Oct 2007 13:10:35 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l9ODAYc6019838 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:10:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l9ODAYhu019837 for cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:10:34 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200710241310.l9ODAYhu019837@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:10:34 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: Introduction to Cognitive Science From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: Critiques of AI/Computational CogSci To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4589/Wed Oct 24 05:55:55 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 2065 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Critiques of AI/Computational CogSci ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In yesterday's class, Scott asked about critiques of AI/computational cognitive science. Here is an annotated list of the 4 major critiques: Dreyfus, Hubert L. (1992), What Computers *Still* Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Although published last, this is the 4th version of a critique originally called "Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence" that first appeared as RAND tech report in 1965. Dreyfus is a "continental/phenomenological" philosopher, and this report, now book, prompted many bitter replies as well as much useful AI research, such as better chess-playing programs in order to beat Dreyfus at chess. Weizenbaum, Joseph (1976), Computer Power and Human Reason: >From Judgment to Calculation (New York: W.H. Freeman). Weizenbaum created the ELIZA program in order to show how people could be fooled into thinking that a dumb program could think. This book contains a description of ELIZA, one of the best explanations of Turing machines (the toilet- paper-&-stones model), and a good warning about the improper uses of computers. Winograd, Terry; & Flores, Fernando (1987), Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley). Winograd wrote one of the first and most successful natural- language processing programs, SHRDLU. His "conversion to the dark side" by Chilean activist and computer scientist Flores was considered disappointing, if not downright treacherous, by many of his former colleagues. Winograd was also a co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Searle, John R. (1980), "Minds, Brains, and Programs", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3: 417-457. This is the original source of the Chinese Room Argument, which some of you are already familiar with and that we will be discussing later in the semester.