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    1. which tasks are easy and which ones are hard

      ...like, for example, standing on two feet. It is really hard to teach a robot to balance like a bipedal human, which is what makes those dancing robot videos by Boston Dynamics so monumental.

      Oh. Just realized that Boston Dynamics was mentioned below. sigh Haha

    2. computer generated characters in motion pictures such as Avatar, the Lord of the Rings, and popular Pixar animations where the animated characters replicate gestures made by real human actors.

      I wonder when AI started to be credited for motion capture technology. I read somewhere that one of the first movies to make use of motion capture (perhaps being entirely made through that technology) was The Polar Express (2004). It makes me wonder what constitutes AI and what is advanced technology, which is a key point this article focuses on.

    3. While the frontpage of the printed version of the New York Times or China Daily is the same for all readers, the frontpage of the online version is different for each user. The algorithms that determine the content that you see are based on AI.

      This is something I didn't know about, though it doesn't really suprise me. I recently saw this sort of bias in those new digital price tags explained in a YouTube video https://youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?si=rFcpFd5MXAKwMU3w