I wouldn’t take Moravec’s paradox too seriously; all it seems to indicate is that we’re better at programming a system we’ve spent thousands of years formalizing (eg, math) than a system that’s built into our brains so that we never really think about it...hardly surprising to me.
I think Moravec’s paradox is more than a selection effect. Face recognition requires more computing power than multiplying two 32-bit numbers, and it’s not just because we’ve learned to formalize one but not the other. We will never get so good at programming computers that our face-recognition programs get faster than our number-multiplication programs.
I wouldn’t take Moravec’s paradox too seriously; all it seems to indicate is that we’re better at programming a system we’ve spent thousands of years formalizing (eg, math) than a system that’s built into our brains so that we never really think about it...hardly surprising to me.
I think Moravec’s paradox is more than a selection effect. Face recognition requires more computing power than multiplying two 32-bit numbers, and it’s not just because we’ve learned to formalize one but not the other. We will never get so good at programming computers that our face-recognition programs get faster than our number-multiplication programs.