>> At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa.
From Wikipedia, quoting Hans Moravec:
Moravec's paradox is the observation that, as Hans Moravec wrote in 1988, "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility".[1]
Note that Moravec is not saying anything about "much less computation" and he's also not talking about "reasoning", particularly since he's talking in the 1980's when AI systems excelled at reasoning (because they were still predominantly logic-based and not LLMs; then again, that's just a couple of years before the AI winter of the '90s hit and took all that away).
In my opinion the author should have started by quoting Moravec directly instead of paraphrasing so that we know he's really discussing Moravec's saying and not his own, idiosyncratic, interpretation of it.
From Wikipedia, quoting Hans Moravec:
Moravec's paradox is the observation that, as Hans Moravec wrote in 1988, "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility".[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox
Note that Moravec is not saying anything about "much less computation" and he's also not talking about "reasoning", particularly since he's talking in the 1980's when AI systems excelled at reasoning (because they were still predominantly logic-based and not LLMs; then again, that's just a couple of years before the AI winter of the '90s hit and took all that away).
In my opinion the author should have started by quoting Moravec directly instead of paraphrasing so that we know he's really discussing Moravec's saying and not his own, idiosyncratic, interpretation of it.