Teaching AI Common Sense
The Holy Grail - AI with Common Sense DARPA's New Initiative It's so ironic. AI can identify objects in nanoseconds, enable cutting edge robotics and perfectly mimic the human voice. But most machine intelligence doesn't understand the basics of everyday life like actions and objects. The US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is on a mission to teach AI basic common sense. Not So Fast and Not So Easy DARPA calls the initiative the Machine Common Sense Program. They're teaming up with Seattle-based The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. The team is facing a profoundly daunting task. They acknowledge it probably won't be solved in a year to two. Goals DARPA wants to define the problem and make progress on it. AI works extremely well and at warp speeds, for instance on the classification of very specific areas. According to DARPA: "The absence of common sense prevents an intelligent system from und