The Curious Case of Commonsense Intelligence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yejin Choi (0000-0003-3032-5378, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 151 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-155 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_01906 |
| OpenAlex | W4226367199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Commonsense intelligence is a long-standing puzzle in AI. Despite considerable advances in deep learning, AI continues to be narrow and brittle due to its lack of common sense. Why is common sense so trivial for humans but so hard for machines? In this essay, I map the twists and turns in recent research adventures toward commonsense AI. As we will see, the latest advances on common sense are riddled with new, potentially counterintuitive perspectives and questions. In particular, I discuss the significance of language for modeling intuitive reasoning, the fundamental limitations of logic formalisms despite their intellectual appeal, the case for on-the-fly generative reasoning through language, the continuum between knowledge and reasoning, and the blend between symbolic and neural knowledge representations
Adventure · Appeal · Cognitive science · Common sense · Commonsense knowledge · Commonsense reasoning · Counterintuitive · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Knowledge representation and reasoning · Rotation formalisms in three dimensions · Artificial Intelligence · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |