AI Critics

• [Dreyfus1981] From Micro-Worlds to Knowledge Representation: AI at an Impass.
  The paper criticizes some works in AI during the seventies.
• [McDermott1981] Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity.
  McDermott claims that if we cannot criticize ourselves, someone else will save us the trouble. He makes an effort to ridicule some of the mistakes in AI and especially the acronyms people make up for their programs and portions of their code. He claims for example that ``GPS'' is a colorless term denoting a particularly stupid program to solve puzzles and it should have been called LFGNS - Local Feature Guided Network Searcher.
• [Winograd and Flores1986] Computers and Cognition, Chapters 2, 3.
  A critical view of the intellectual tradition underlying AI, along with some suggested alternative foundations. You should particularly look at the assumptions of rationalism (beginning in section 2.1) and their criticisms of these assumptions (pages 32-35). Many of their remarks are similar to earlier critiques by Hubert Dreyfus.