Does this “paradox” still hold in the era of recent multimodal AI? In particular, what are some things that are easy for humans but hard for AI, other than things requiring embodiment? What areas are human mechanical Turks still much better at? (I believe there are areas but pretty fuzzy about what they are.)
I don’t think reading/writing is very easy for humans—compared to perception and embodied tasks. My Morvec’s paradox intuition here is maths is of a similar order of difficulty to what we have been very successfully automating in the last couple years, so I expect it will happen soon.
I mean like the type of perception one needs to empty a random dishwasher, make a cup of coffee with a random coffee machine type of stuff, clean a room. Hunt and skin a rabbit.
Does this “paradox” still hold in the era of recent multimodal AI? In particular, what are some things that are easy for humans but hard for AI, other than things requiring embodiment? What areas are human mechanical Turks still much better at? (I believe there are areas but pretty fuzzy about what they are.)
I don’t think reading/writing is very easy for humans—compared to perception and embodied tasks. My Morvec’s paradox intuition here is maths is of a similar order of difficulty to what we have been very successfully automating in the last couple years, so I expect it will happen soon.
Embodied tasks just aren’t an area where comparison makes much sense yet. What kind of perception tasks did you have in mind?
I mean like the type of perception one needs to empty a random dishwasher, make a cup of coffee with a random coffee machine type of stuff, clean a room. Hunt and skin a rabbit.