汉斯莫拉维茨和其他计算机科学家在20世纪80年代时指出，对我们来说轻而易举的事情，对最先进的人工智能来说也是难于上青天；反之，人工智能常常能够轻松完成我们认为困难的事情。
Hans Moravec and other computer scientists pointed out in the 1980s that what is simple for us is hard for even the most sophisticated AI; conversely, AI often can do easily what we regard as difficult.