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 embodied artificial intelligence
Rodney Brooks
1954
Australian roboticist, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics. His behaviour-based robotics argued that intelligence rests on perception and action rather than on symbolic reasoning laid over them.