Things that are easy for toddlers are hard for AI, and vice versa.

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Moravec’s paradox: high-level reasoning like chess needs relatively little computation, while walking, grasping and recognising faces — which children do effortlessly — are extremely hard for machines.

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Chatbots once struggled to count the r’s in “strawberry”.The “T” in ChatGPT stands for Transformer — from a 2017 paper about attention.ChatGPT is estimated to have reached 100 million users in about two months.