The Machine Learning Myth

“I was recently at a demonstration of walking robots, and you know what? The organizers had spent a good deal of time preparing everything the day before. However, in the evening the cleaners had come to polish the floor. When the robots started, during the real demonstration the next morning, they had a lot of difficulty getting up. Amazingly, after half a minute or so, they walked perfectly on the polished surface. The robots could really…