GOFAI was the dominant paradigm of AI research from the middle fifties until the late 1980s. After that time, newer sub-symbolic approaches to AI became popular. Now, both approaches are in common use, often applied to different problems.
Cog: Goodbye GOFAI
Dreyfus' arguments against artificial intelligence specifically target GOFAI (good, old-fashioned AI) approaches to problems.
John Haugeland named these approaches to AI "good old fashioned AI" or "GOFAI".
It is also the same attitude that pervaded both classic cognitive psychology and GOFAI (good old-fashioned AI).
Advocates of what the philosopher John Haugeland famously characterized as GOFAI (good old-fashioned artificial intelligence) create hand-crafted intricate models that are often powerful yet too brittle to be used in the real world. ...
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