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Psychological/Decision

Moravec's Paradox

Hard problems for humans are easy for computers, and vice versa

Overview

The observation that high-level reasoning requires little computation, while low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources.

AI can easily beat humans at chess and complex mathematics but struggles with tasks toddlers find easy: recognizing faces, walking, understanding language context, picking up objects. Why are 'hard' human tasks easy for AI and 'easy' human tasks hard for AI?

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