#AI #robots
"In the nineteen-eighties, Hans Moravec, a Canadian roboticist, described a paradox: the tasks that are easiest for humans to perform, such as using our hands to grasp things, are often the hardest for computers to do. This is still true even now that many refined tasks, such as writing prose or computer code, have practically been conquered already. In my job as a programmer, I use an A.I. to quickly solve coding tasks that once would have taken me an afternoon; this A.I. couldn’t type at my keyboard. It is all mind and no body. As a result, the most 'A.I.-proof' professions may actually be old ones: plumbing, carpentry, child care, cooking. Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, once proposed a simple test that has yet to be passed: Can a robot go into your house and make you a cup of coffee?"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/a-revolution-in-how-robots-learn