(I realized only when I was almost finished writing this post that all I had really done was to restate Moravec’s paradox: “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.” Or as Steven Pinker put it, “the main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard”.)

Timothy B. Lee quoting Steve Newman.