[unishark]

Don't know anything about the amazon robots specifically, but manufacturing robots commonly use computer vision methods which perform a lot better than 90 percent. I don't really agree with the claims of 99.9% accuracy and being generally superior to humans in this area. But in practical terms a vast number of new vision tasks are solved problems now, a really huge achievement.

Though on the "curve fitting" versus "general intelligence" argument, I agree with you. The robots still can only do exactly what we tell to do, we just don't need to be quite so exact in telling them how to do it. But for the most part, this is only gained by having to show them very very thoroughly how to do it by using tons of data.