US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box
A hypothetical situation: AI is tied to a camera of me in my office. Doing basic object identification. I stand up. AI recognizes me, recognizes desk. Recognizes &quot;human&quot; and recognizes &quot;desk&quot;. I sit on desk. Does AI mark it as a desk or as a chair?<p>And let&#x27;s zoom in on the chair. AI sees &quot;chair&quot;. Slowly zoom in on arm of chair. When does AI switch to &quot;arm of chair&quot;? Now, slowly zoom back out. When does AI switch to &quot;chair&quot;? And should it? When does a part become part of a greater whole, and when does a whole become constituent parts?<p>In other words, we have made great strides in teaching AI &quot;physics&quot; or &quot;recognition&quot;, but we have made very little progress in teaching it metaphysics (categories, in this case) because half the people working on the problem don&#x27;t even recognize metaphysics as a category even though without it, they could not perceive the world. Which is also why AI cannot perceive the world the way we do: no metaphysics.