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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American artificial intelligence
Marvin Minsky
1927 – 2016
Co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and one of the founding figures of the field. In The Society of Mind he argued that the mental work we find easiest is the work built from the largest and oldest machinery, which is exactly why it is hardest to introspect on and hardest to reproduce.