Epoch AI Reframes Moravec's Paradox: AI Automates Tasks Where Humans Vary Most

Drawing on Epoch AI's analysis of Moravec's paradox, researchers argue AI automates tasks first where equally trained humans vary most. Human chess skill spans a 1000x gap, but no one beats others 1000x at object detection because evolution optimized that ability for everyone.

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