Management Craft

Mind Over Machine

Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus's book on human intuition and expertise versus machine intelligence, elaborating their five-stage model of skill acquisition. First published in hardcover in 1986; the revised 1988 paperback (which corrected the book's account of expertise from 'pattern recognition' to a neural-net 'discrimination and association') is the edition to cite.

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Published
1988

Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus's book on human intuition and expertise versus machine intelligence, elaborating their five-stage model of skill acquisition. First published in hardcover in 1986; the revised 1988 paperback (which corrected the book's account of expertise from 'pattern recognition' to a neural-net 'discrimination and association') is the edition to cite.

The Dreyfus ModelToolEvery skill runs on a ladder from novice to expert, with a sixth rung, mastery, for those who push further, and where you sit changes how you learn it and how you should be coached. The Dreyfus model is the map: name the rung, name the next one, and the vague feedback that helps no one turns into a plan.