What Computers Can't Do
This dialogic book will teach you to see intelligence as philosophers do: embodied, situated, irreducible to code. You will grasp why expertise, intuition, and common sense resist formalization, and gain the conceptual tools to evaluate every claim that machines are about to surpass us.
ChatGPT writes essays, AI generates art, and tech companies promise machines that truly understand. Dreyfus saw this coming fifty years ago. Writing in the early days of artificial intelligence, he drew on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty to explain why computation cannot replicate human understanding. His arguments have only grown sharper as AI has grown more powerful.