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Re:NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF by AlotOfReading on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:08PM (#37218181)
Moravec's paradox. The things humans do easily end up being the hardest problems for machines.

Besides, you could call a smartphone a complicated rube Goldberg machine for the purpose of reading text when you could just buy a newspaper instead, but we don't because they're meaningfully different things.

Re:NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF by im3w1l on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:43AM (#37220115)
It's a perception thing isn't it? Like you could imagine things for (human, machine) being (easy, easy), (easy, hard), (hard, easy) or (hard, hard). The first category will be taken for granted, and with the last category no one will fault the machine for not being able to do it. That leaves just the two middle ones as being remarkable.