Moravec’s Paradox is the observation that high-level reasoning (e.g., chess, math) is relatively easy for computers to perform, while simple sensory tasks (e.g., perception, reflexes, mobility) are much harder.

Moravec believed that most people thought this result was the opposite of what most people expected,

It is comparatively easy to make

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I see a lot of different forms of cope. Most notably:

1. People who think that those AI-generated summaries that come up when you Google something are State-of-the-art


2. People who haven’t played with these models since early GPT-4, or even GPT-3.5


3. People who latch onto the two big remaining error classes
   
   
   1. Tokenizer errors. These are what happens when you

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Generative AI challenges us intellectually. John Searle at Berkeley talked about the Chinese Room argument. ( It says that no matter how smart a computer seems, it can’t have human consciousness.–Ed ) Well, the Chinese Room showed up. I recently gave an example. I used Google to give me a Chinese output for: “Who is Ai Weiwei?”