Pedro Domingos revives Moravec's paradox: AI cracks Navier-Stokes but can't do accounting
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-01
Pedro Domingos distills Moravec's paradox into one line: AI can solve the Navier-Stokes problem yet still can't do the job of "Mary from accounting." The tweet highlights the persistent inversion in AI capabilities — frontier mathematical reasoning is tractable, while mundane office work remains out of reach.
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