@mnd Thanks for bringing up Moravec's paradox, haven't heard of it before.

But is it really an actual problem that defies solving? To me it just sounds like a statement on the mistaken evaluation of the complexity of certain tasks, and conjecture that truly solving the seemingly difficult, actually easy, problems, requires first solving the seemingly easy, actually difficult, problems ... that sentience is a thin layer or emergent property on top of sophisticated unconscious management of sensory input and cognition.

The way I see it, that's what most AI talk today is about anyway. Algorithms, logic problems and combinatorial search are solved, boring problems, everybody is now working on evolutionary neural tasks like managing the balance of "Big Dog".