Commonsense reasoning and commonsense knowledge in artificial intelligence

Ernest Davis, Gary Marcus

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Abstract

Ernest Davis and Gary Marcus share their views on the significance of commonsense reasoning and commonsense knowledge in artificial intelligence (AI). Many intelligent tasks, such as understanding texts, computer vision, planning, and scientific reasoning require the real-world knowledge and reasoning abilities. Techniques for implementing commonsense include logical analysis, handcrafting large knowledge bases, Web mining, and crowdsourcing. Intelligent machines need not replicate human cognition directly, but a better understanding of human commonsense is needed to perform such activities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)92-103
Number of pages12
JournalCommunications of the ACM
Volume58
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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