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Moravec’s Paradox observes that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years optimizing sensorimotor skills, while abstract reasoning is a recent, thin veneer. Perception feels effortless; reasoning feels hard. For AI, it’s the reverse.
Sensory Transducers • Grace Kind
Humans have a limited set of senses. There are the five major senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch) as well as a few lesser-known ones (e.g. balance, proprioception).
Extending Our Perception
The world is rich with information hidden from human senses and not captured by our algorithms. The next era of AI will require Hypersensory Intelligence — AI and novel sensors engineered together to perceive reality in fundamentally new ways, catalysing breakthroughs across disciplines.
