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Moravec's paradox

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Moravec's paradox

Summary

Moravec's paradox is a paradox[1]. It draws 501 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #12 of 104).[2]

Key Facts

  • Moravec's paradox's instance of is recorded as paradox[3].
  • Hans Moravec is named after Moravec's paradox[4].
  • Moravec's paradox's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z[5].
  • Moravec's paradox's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02w7ywk[6].
  • Moravec's paradox's facet of is recorded as artificial intelligence[7].
  • Moravec's paradox's Quora topic ID is recorded as Moravecs-Paradox[8].
  • Moravec's paradox's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20451394[9].
  • Moravec's paradox's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 184293393[10].

Body

Designation and Status

Moravec's paradox's instance of is recorded as paradox[3].

History and Context

Hans Moravec is named after Moravec's paradox[4].

Why It Matters

Moravec's paradox draws 501 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #12 of 104).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Related Entities

artificial intelligence Hans Moravec

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . zhihu.com. Retrieved . zhihu.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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