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We're about to cross the line Moravec described: robots are matching children's basic levels of perception and mobility. I don't see how this is an argument that computers won't replace us. In fact, this is an area where machines will clearly vastly outperform us in the next 10 years. Moravec’s Paradox is about to be eliminated.

Self-driving cars are challenging because some rare driving situations require advanced reasoning. That also has nothing to do with Moravec's example of basic perception or mobility. This does fall under "Tasks we find easy might not translate easily to AI", but it is interesting to consider why: because self-driving cars require full situational understanding. Drivers might have to understand what a traffic guard is saying, for instance.

None of these cases really explain why computers will complement and not replace us. It just creates a high bar, twice as high as OpenAI is currently hitting. But is 2x that high?

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