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Moravec's Paradox

Moravec's Paradox

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Colin Wright
Sep 29, 2022
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In the world of robotics and artificial intelligence, Moravec's Paradox refers to the observation that many of our assumptions about synthetic cognition and articulation have proven to be wrong.

And not just wrong: we seem to have a flawed sense of what requires vast computational resources and what doesn't.

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