{"id":183205,"date":"2006-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T10:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/computers-versus-common-sense\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:44:24","slug":"computers-versus-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/computers-versus-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers versus Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>It&#8217;s way past 2001 now, where the heck is HAL?  For several decades now we&#8217;ve had high hopes for computers amplifying our mental abilities \u2013 not just giving us access to relevant stored information, but answering our complex, contextual questions.  Applications like human-level unrestricted speech understanding continue to dangle tantalizingly close but just out of reach.  What&#8217;s been holding AI up?<br \/>\nThe short answer is that while computers make fine idiot savants, they lack common sense:  the millions of pieces of general knowledge we all share, and fall back on as needed, to cope with the rough edges of the real world.  I will talk about how that situation is changing, finally, and what the timetable \u2013 and the path \u2013 realistically are on achieving Artificial Intelligence.  I&#8217;ll also comment on the hope and the hype of the Semantic Web effort, and the recent cover story in the NY Times (&#8220;A Web Guided by Common Sense&#8221;, November 12, 2006) in which our Cyc system featured prominently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s way past 2001 now, where the heck is HAL? For several decades now we&#8217;ve had high hopes for computers amplifying our mental abilities \u2013 not just giving us access to relevant stored information, but answering our complex, contextual questions. Applications like human-level unrestricted speech understanding continue to dangle tantalizingly close but just out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":194949,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-183205","msr-video","type-msr-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_download_urls":"","msr_external_url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/60y4TVq17zI","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_video_file":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/183205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-video"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/183205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=183205"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=183205"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=183205"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=183205"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=183205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}