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
www.hemenparekh.in /
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