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Another reminder of how incredibly powerful our brains are. Walking and motor skills seem like such basic things because we start mastering them as toddlers. Me
by warent 8y ago
Another reminder of how incredibly powerful our brains are. Walking and motor skills seem like such basic things because we start mastering them as toddlers. Meanwhile, teams of experts across the world are still trying to figure out how to get a robot to do it. For example, they're talking about finding out the location of where to toe-off based on some instantaneous capture point. None of that ever consciously came to my mind, but these crazy calculations are constantly running in the background.
- krapp 8y agoThis is known as Moravec's Paradox[0]. Fine motor skills and basic visual cognition require far more computational effort than high-level reasoning. [0]https://medium.com/@froger_mcs/moravecs-paradox-c79bf638103f https://medium.com/@froger_mcs/moravecs-paradox-c79bf638103f
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- dwaltrip 8y agoI think it is a bit generous to call an AI's behavior in those areas "high-level reasoning" :) It is certainly quite impressive. But it seems to me that the paradox is neatly solved by comparing the how well-constrained the activity is. Movement and (especially) visual processing are incredibly general problems. Where as board games are very narrow, well-constrained problems. It always interesting when people expect AI to robustly and effectively process visual content without first actually understanding the world (which obviously no AI is even close to doing).
- maxerickson 8y agoA lot of animals are walking a few minutes after they are born. The parts of the brain that take care of it seem to be more hard wired.