Moravec's Paradox: Easy for Humans, Hard for AI

In this episode, we unpack Moravec's Paradox—the idea that easy human tasks like walking, recognizing faces, and common-sense perception are hard for machines, while abstract tasks like chess and math can be done with apparent ease. We'll trace its origins in the 1980s, from Moravec and other AI pioneers to the shift toward embodied, experiential AI, and examine how advances in robotics and vision are reshaping what machines can do. We'll also discuss why certain human capacities—social intuition, creativity, empathy—remain hard to replicate, and what Moravec's Paradox teaches us about the nature of intelligence and the future of AI.

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