Q 328. What is Moravec's Paradox and its application in Artificial Intelligence? Note for website visitors - Two questions are asked every week on this platform. One on Tuesday and the other on Friday. All questions so far can be seen here - https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/lean-six-sigma-business-excellence-questions/ Please visit the forum home page at https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/ to respond to the latest question open till the next Tuesday/ Friday evening 5 PM as per Indian Standard Time. Questions launched on Tuesdays are open till Friday and questions launched on Friday are open till Tuesday. The best answer is always shown at the top among responses and the author finds honorable mention in our Business Excellence dictionary at https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/forum/business-excellence-dictionary-glossary/ along with the related term

Message added by Mayank Gupta, January 8, 20215 yr

Moravec's Paradox states that it is easy to teach computers reasoning and logic (or any subject that follows rules) while it is difficult to teach them sensorimotor skills. This implies that reasoning will require less computations while sensory skills will require large computations.

An application-oriented question on the topic along with responses can be seen below. The best answer was provided by Santosh Sharma on 8th Jan 2021.

Moravec's paradox

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January 5, 20215 yr

Q 328. What is Moravec's Paradox and its application in Artificial Intelligence?

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January 8, 20215 yr

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January 8, 20215 yr

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It is difficult or impossible to offer computer the talents of a one-year-old and easy to form computers exhibit adult level performance.”
Reverse-engineering a person's skill was expected by AI practitioners to be proportional to the quantity of your time that skill had been evolving during mankind's evolution. In the early stages of AI, skills that appeared effortless were expected to be difficult to reverse-engineer (typically cognitive functions like reading comprehension, visual perception , speech recognition). Teaching a machine to beat a human playing chess has been considered comparably easy by AI practitioners as it is a skill that only requires effort (mainly compute power).

The Moravec’s paradox is a factor that held back developments in AI. The availability of pretrained cognitive functions by hyperscale cloud providers is breaking it and fueling the current wave of AI.

The Moravec Paradox was assuming the following:

Oldest human skills are largely unconscious, so appear to us to be effortless.

Therefore, Skills that require effort may not necessarily be difficult to engineer at all but we should expect skills that appear effortless to be difficult to reverse-engineer,

5 yr5 yr Rohit Gandhi locked this topic

January 8, 20215 yr

Santosh Sharma has correctly explained the paradox and also mentioned how it is helping AI become better. Hence, his answer has been selected as the best answer.