What is easy for humans is hard for machines and what is hard for humans is easy for machines.
Moravec's 1988 observation: a computer can play grandmaster chess and cannot pick up a cup. A billion years of evolution went into perception and movement, and a few thousand into abstract reasoning.
In practice
- A machine that beats any human at chess cannot fold a towel.
- A system that summarises a legal document flawlessly cannot reliably tell whether the office kitchen is tidy.
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- Technology & Software
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- The programmers' folklore, and technology's place in society