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Skimming Dreyfus's criticism, it is mostly applicable to early AI research which tried to reproduce intelligence through high level symbolic manipulation and rule-based systems (and he was right: that approach failed). Modern AI research goes in the direction of connectionism and machine learning, so his criticism doesn't really hold (and neither does Musk's, I believe).


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