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Watson's Creator Wants to Teach AI a New Trick: Common Sense
- rfreytag 6y agoArticle should have mentioned Cyc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc) as an important attempt at common-sense reasoning.
- dublin 6y agoAbsolutely agree - this is what Doug Lenat and the Cyc team have spent 30 years building - Doug had the foresight to realize that regardless of how "smart" an AI is, if it doesn't know about how things relate in the real world, it can't possibly act as smart as even a young child. "Common sense" is surprisingly difficult to encode, as it means understanding and internalizing a scary number of cause and effect relationships, as well as broad general knowledge about the world, people, language, etc.