Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Monday 5 March 2018

Common Sense ? Let Robots excel !




Times of India ( 05 Feb ) carries following news :


 Next crash course for machines :  ‘ Common Sense ‘



Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen said that he was pumping an additional $125 million into his non-profit computer research lab for an ambitious new effort to teach machines “common sense.”


 In the years and decades to come, the lab hopes to create a database of fundamental knowledge that humans take for granted but machines have always lacked.


“To make real progress in AI, we have to overcome the big challenges in the area of common sense,” said Allen, who founded the software giant Microsoft in the 1970s with Bill Gates.


Today, machines can recognize nearby objects, identify spoken words, translate one language into another and mimic other human tasks with an accuracy


But these machines struggle with other basic tasks. Though Amazon’s Alexa does a good job of recognizing what you say, it cannot respond to anything more than basic commands and questions. When confronted with heavy traffic or unexpected situations, driverless cars just sit there.


AI “recognizes objects, but can’t explain what it sees. It can’t read a textbook and understand the questions,” said Oren Etzioni, a former University of Washington professor who oversees the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. “It is devoid of common sense.”






To understand why it is not merely important but vital for the survival of the human race that robots quickly acquire this “ Common Sense “ , read :


ArtificialIntelligence or Natural Stupidity ?  [  06  Nov  2017  ]




06  March  2018



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