That said, the article starts with several problems.
1) Claims that it isn't a paradox, which is just silly. A paradox is a counter-intuitive result. The result is generally counter-intuitive whatever explanation you give. Zeno's paradox remains a paradox despite calculus essentially explaining it, etc.
2) Calls the article "Understanding Moravec's Paradox" when it should be called "My Explanation of Moravec's Paradox".
3) The author's final explanation seems kind of simplistic; "Human activities just have a large search space". IDK. Human activity sometimes does still in things that aren't walking also. I mean, "not enough data" is an explanation why neural networks can't do a bunch of things. But not all programs are neural networks. One of the things humans are really good at is learning things from a few examples. A serious explanation of Moravec's Paradox would have to explain this as well imo.
I dispute the search space problem for something like folding clothes. Like a lot of human actions in space, folding clothes and other motor tasks are hierarchical sequences of smaller tasks that are strung together, similar to a sentence or paragraph of text.
We can probably learn things from each other from few examples because we are leaning on a large library of subtasks that all have learned or which are innate, and the actual novel learning of sequencing and ordering is relatively small to get to the new reward.
I expect soon we'll get AIs that have part of their training be unsupervised rl in a physics simulation, if it's not being done already.
cwmoore•6h ago
EDIT: someone has to order the license plates