Hubert Dreyfus argued philosophy against AI — and taught my mother

Philosophy against artificial intelligence — and Hare's mother's employer

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Berkeley philosopher, best known for a sustained argument that human intelligence and expertise are not reducible to rule-following — an argument he made against the symbolic AI program long before it was fashionable to doubt it, and which reads very differently now.

Co-taught with his brother Stuart, combining philosophy and engineering in an attempt to apply rigor and logic to philosophy. Jonathan Hare's mother worked for him in building T-8 on the Berkeley campus, immediately west of Evans Hall.

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brother, and co-teacher

Stuart Dreyfus handed me Hinton's back-propagation paper at Berkeley

Berkeley advisor — and the man who handed him Hinton's paper

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Ramagiri · Blue Mountain Center of Meditation

The ashram, and an unlikely overlap with Berkeley engineering

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UC Berkeley: a 2.7 forced curve and twenty-nine Nobel laureates

“Imaginary engineers” — third floor, Etcheverry Hall

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Berkeley — IEOR, the Dreyfus brothers, and Hinton's paper

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The name and years of the joint philosophy-engineering course

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