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by jvanderbot 473 days ago
The computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing. - Emo Phillips

Tale as old as time. We can make nice software systems but general purpose AI / Agents isn't here yet.

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Worse than that: it seems that it's much easier to make computer achieve superhuman feats in cognitive work, than it is to make it do even most basic physical interactions with the real world.

In short: the natural order of things is that computers are better at thinking, and people are better at manual labor. Which is the opposite of what we wanted.

AI is just hydraulics for the mind. Or should be.

I choose a direction and apply force.