Moravec's Paradox: When Easy is Hard and Hard is Easy in AI
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In the 1980s, roboticist Hans Moravec made a fascinating observation that would later become known as Moravec's paradox: tasks that are easy for humans to perform often prove incredibly difficult for artificial intelligence, while tasks that humans find challenging can be relatively simple for AI to master. This counterintuitive principle has profound implications for AI development and our understanding of intelligence itself.The Paradox ExplainedThe essence of Moravec's paradox can be summariz
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Original Title: TIL it takes orders of magnitude greater computational resources to recognise a loved one in a photograph than it does to perform a complex arithmetic calculation. This is called Moravec’s paradox. We effortlessly do as humans what computers find incredibly demanding, and vice versa.