Commonsense Reasoning

Ordinary people manage to accomplish an extraordinary number of complex tasks just using simple, informal thought processes based on a large amount of common knowledge. They can quickly plan and undertake a shopping expedition to six or seven different shops, as well as pick up the kids from soccer and drop a book back at the library, quite efficiently without logically considering the hundreds of thousands of alternative ways to plan such an outing. They can manage their personal finances, or find their way across a crowded room dancing without hitting anyone, just using commonsense reasoning. Artificial intelligence is far behind humans in using such reasoning except for limited jobs, and tasks that rely heavily on commonsense reasoning are usually poor candidates for AI applications.


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Commonsense Reasoning, Ordinary people manage to accomplish an extraordinary number of complex tasks just using simple, informal thought processes based on a large amount of common knowledge. They can quickly plan and undertake a shopping expedition to six or seven different shops, as well as pick up the kids from soccer and drop a book back at the library, quite efficiently without logically considering the hundreds of thousands of alternative ways to plan such an outing. They can manage their personal finances, or find their way across a crowded room dancing without hitting anyone, just using commonsense reasoning. Artificial intelligence is far behind humans in using such reasoning except for limited jobs, and tasks that rely heavily on commonsense reasoning are usually poor candidates for AI applications.,