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Re:Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs... by seanhunter on Saturday January 11, 2025 @02:42AM (#42664112)
Yeah the fun way Moravec's paradox was explained to me [1] is that you can now easily get a computer to solve simultaneous differential equations governing all the axes of motion of a robot arm but getting it to pick one screw out of a box of screws is an unsolved research problem.

[1] by a disillusioned computer vision phd that left the field in the 1990s.

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Re:Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs... by wrp on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:20AM (#42664262)
Selective attention was one of the main factors in Hubert Dreyfus' explanation of "what computers can't do." He had a special term for it, which I can't remember off-hand.
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