I can see why the Dreyfus article would be controversial, but so far (first ten pages or so) I found it very enlightening. This really struck a chord with me:

I can see why the Dreyfus article would be controversial, but so far (first ten pages or so) I found it very enlightening. This really struck a chord with me: > What the learner acquires through experience is not represented at all but is presented to the learner as more and more finely discriminated situations, and, if the situation does not clearly solicit a single response or if the response does not produce a satisfactory result, the learner is led to further refine his discriminations, which, in turn, solicit more refined responses. Comparing that to the meaning of "learn" commonly used in ML to mean "finding optimal weights for some features" and you can see the gulf pretty starkly.