John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

Buy Artificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org (with kickback) (without kickback) One of the better books I read in college was Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985) by philosopher John Haugeland . One of the sections I found most striking and memorable was about Terry Winograd's SHRDLU . SHRDLU, around 1970, could carry on a discussion in English in which it would manipulate imaginary colored blocks in a “blocks world”. displayed on a computer screen. The operator could direct it to “