What is Common Sense Reasoning

A Field of research in the artificial intelligence community that seeks to endow a computer with “common sense.” Many applications of artificial intelligence are highly successful. As an example, consider the fact that IBM’s “Big Blue” has defeated the world chess champion on multiple occasions. Yet, all computer applications perform miserably fail when required to perform outside of the realm for which they were designed. Put differently, the performance of humans degrades gracefully, while the performance of computers plummets rapidly when performing unanticipated tasks.

A field of research in the artificial intelligence community that seeks to endow a computer with “common sense.” Many applications of artificial intelligence are highly successful. As an example, consider the fact that IBM’s “Big Blue” has defeated the world chess champion on multiple occasions. Yet, all computer applications perform miserably when required to perform outside of the realm for which they were designed. Put differently, the performance of humans degrades gracefully while the performance of computers plummets rapidly when performing unanticipated tasks.

A field of research in the artificial intelligence community that seeks to endow a computer with “common sense”. Many applications of artificial intelligence are highly successful. As an example, consider the fact that IBM’s “Big Blue” has defeated the world chess champion on multiple occasions. Yet, all computer applications perform miserably when required to perform outside of the realm for which they were designed. Put differently, the performance of humans degrades gracefully, while the performance of computers plummets rapidly when performing unanticipated tasks.