The Moravec paradox, articulated by roboticist Moravec in 1988, describes the counter-intuitive observation that complex intellectual tasks like proving theorems and playing chess are easy for computers, while simple sensorimotor tasks like manipulating objects remain fundamentally difficult despite decades of robotics research.
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“So we keep bumping into this paradox which um actually is very well known in in AI called the Moravec paradox. Moravec is uh is a roboticist in 1988. He said... that you know, kind of paradoxical that a lot of you know, complex intellectual tasks like you know, proving theorems, uh, you know, playing chess and things like that. Seem easy for computers. But then the things that we take for granted like, you know, just manipulating an object, uh, we're still completely unable to reproduce this with uh, with computers.”
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