Moravec's Paradox
Although we process information, we do not do it the way that computers do.” Even to ask the question, he argues, of “whether a computer has captured the essence of human reason is a diversion, if not a trap, because the real question — do humans understand the essence of humans? — cannot be answered or resolved by technology.”
Abeba Birhane • Fair Warning — Real Life
Moravec's paradox in LLM evals
I was reacting to this new benchmark of frontier math where LLMs only solve 2%. It was introduced because LLMs are increasingly crushing existing math benchmarks. The interesting issue is that even though by many accounts (/evals), LLMs are inching well into top expert territory (e.g. in... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.comMoravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.