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Moravec's Paradox

13 pointsby SongofEarthalmost 2 years ago

4 comments

haltingproblemalmost 2 years ago
Very interesting that Rodney Brook is linked to this in the Wikipedia article. Brook&#x27;s subsumption architecture seems a logical evolution of this thought. Defer intelligence to the edges - the limbs - via subsumption behaviors. Also Brooks&#x27;s famous paper &quot;Elephants do not play Chess&quot; [1] comes to mind. Fascinating to the see this various threads linked together. What a joy it would be to drop into conversations between Moravec, Minsky and Brooks!!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;brooks&#x2F;papers&#x2F;elephants.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;brooks&#x2F;papers&#x2F;elephants.pdf</a>
alexmolasalmost 2 years ago
&gt; Moravec wrote in 1988, &quot;it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests&quot;<p>I wonder what made he think this in 1988. I guess he&#x27;s referring to chess engines, but until a couple of years ago text generation was certainly not that good.
thunderbongalmost 2 years ago
I guess I&#x27;ll get down-voted for this, but whenever someone asked me why I hate jogging, I replied, &quot;I&#x27;m a software developer because I&#x27;m lazy!&quot;<p>I enjoy weight and resistance training though!
meltynessalmost 2 years ago
... I mean sure, if you require digital precision and reliability - had these guys not heard of a comparator?