I'm curious about robots, so I'm currently reading Hans Moravec - Mind Children.Next up is Norbert Weiner - Cybernetics Or possibly Norbert Weiner - The Human Use of Human Beings.Discuss robots, the singularity, and futurism ITT.
I think that Moravec's paradox is just lack of proper training data. We will overcome it in time.
>>17087959Moravec's paradox isn't stated as a paradox in Mind Children, where he provides a detailed description of the issue at hand.Essentially, humans developed out of the Tree of Life, and have the adaptations reflective of such a long history. Reason has only existed in its present from for arguably something like 500 years. We used reason to build computers. So the robots are really, really good at reason and logic, because that's the part of humanity that we imparted to them. So the billions and millions of years that it took to develop something like locomotion didn't get transferred to the computers. In fact, locomotion is being taught to robots mostly through recording humans doing sensorimotor tasks and having the robots copy their movements.If you think about it in terms of developmental psychology, then it's about picrel: somewhere around the orange rational level, the computers start getting built, but they are built exclusively by that level; they have none of the benefits, or the baggage, of the previous levels. So everything they do has to be translated through the lens of that level.
>>17087962The truly interesting question is whether, without the help of the benefit and baggage of previous levels, computers and robots can be coaxed into levels beyond rationality, like the Postmodern or Integral levels.
