Moravec paradox

You'll understand the core insight: tasks that are easy for humans (like walking or recognizing faces) are surprisingly hard for robots, while tasks we find difficult (like chess) are easy for machines.

You'll learn why sensorimotor skills require vast computational resources and real-time environmental adaptation, making simple physical tasks deceptively complex for artificial systems.

You'll see how millions of years of evolution shaped our brains for survival tasks like movement and perception, while abstract reasoning is evolutionarily recent and easier to replicate artificially.

You'll grasp how intelligence is deeply tied to having a body and sensors, and why this matters for designing AI systems that can truly understand and interact with the physical world.