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Moravec’s paradox and its implications | Epoch AI

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This Gradient Updates issue explains Moravec’s paradox and offers a speculative picture of how hard various economic tasks are to automate based on the paradox.

Moravec’s paradox and its implications | Epoch AI Gradient Updates shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress. These posts solely represent the views of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch AI as a whole. Since the birth of the field of artificial intelligence in the 20th century, researchers have observed that the difficulty of a task for humans at best weakly correlates with its difficulty for AI systems. For example, humans find it difficult to multiply ten-digit numbers in their heads but easy to draw boxes around each individual cat

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