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The issue with many of these things is that they aren't simple, not really, it's just that our brains are super good at them and computers are almost entirely u
by ivraatiems 4y ago
The issue with many of these things is that they aren't simple, not really, it's just that our brains are super good at them and computers are almost entirely unlike our brains. Human brains are able to do things like read context clues and extrapolate from them. It just makes sense, for example, to wrap your lines to the space available on a given piece of paper. But a computer doesn't know what a "line" or "space" or a "piece of paper" is. It has to be told, via a mathematical abstraction, which a human must devise.
That is, any adult human being carries around an absolutely massive amount of mental context which they are capable of applying to every situation nearly automatically, without realizing it. All of the things you mention are tasks any sufficiently educated human can do easily - draw a shape? sort some things? do math with fractions or complex numbers? - because you can teach a human a general concept and then assume their brain will do the work of applying it to new situations, breaking it down, etc. 2 + 2 on a TV screen is exactly the same as 2 + 2 in a notebook is exactly the same as two sheep + two sheep in the field.
But until someone invents strong general AI (hehe), computers just aren't gonna have that skillset.