Moravec's Paradox
A computer beat the world chess champion in 1997. Getting one to pick up a cup it has not seen before is still hard.
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Robotics and artificial intelligence
Hans Moravec
1948
Austrian-born roboticist, long at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, known for early autonomous vehicle navigation and for forecasts of machine capability. His 1988 book Mind Children states the observation that carries his name: reasoning is computationally cheap, perception and mobility are extraordinarily expensive.