For questions related to commonsense knowledge in the context of artificial intelligence.
Questions tagged [commonsense-knowledge]
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Why do we need common sense in AI?
Let's consider this example:
It's John's birthday, let's buy him a kite.
We humans most likely would say the kite is a birthday gift, if asked why it's being bought; and we refer to this reasoning as common sense.
Why do we need this in…

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Has an AI ever solved a detective mystery?
In detective novels, the point is often that the reader gets enough information to solve the crime themselves. This "puzzle" aspect of detective novels is part of the attraction.
Often the difficulty for humans is to keep track of all the variables…

S.L. Barth is on codidact.com
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Why business experts should prefer state-of-the-art deep neural networks over simpler models?
I have encountered this pattern for a long time (5+ years). So many professionals come with an interesting domain-specific problem, and they demand using state-of-the-art deep learning models: take it or leave it.
I understand that technology…

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What are some most promising ways to approximate common sense and background knowledge?
I learned from this blog post Self-Supervised Learning: The Dark Matter of Intelligence that
We believe that self-supervised learning (SSL) is one of the most promising ways to build such background knowledge and approximate a form of common sense…

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Knowledge graph progress from 2012 to 2022?
I watched this lecture by professor Xin Wang, and a picture in the beginning interested me:
The confusing thing is that this lecture was delivered on Sep. 19, 2022, but it seems from the diagram above that over the last ten years knowledge graph…

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