Despite years of research into artificial intelligence, yet we have not
been able to write programs that match the level of a three year old
child at recognizing objects, understanding sentences, or drawing the
simplest conclusions about ordinary life.
The real problem is that computers do not know anything about
us! Our machines lack common sense -- all that ordinary knowledge that
people in our society share, things we understand so well we hardly
even realize we know them.
To give computers common sense we must program them with knowledge
about many different areas: physical knowledge of how objects behave,
social knowledge of how people interact, sensory knowledge of how
things look and taste, psychological knowledge about the way people
think, and more. Furthermore, each of these different facets of life
requires its own specialized methods of reasoning about them.
OpenMind Commonsense
is an attempt to make computers smarter by making it easy and fun for
people all over the world to work together to give computers the
millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that constitute "common-sense"
