Intermediate · Cognitive
Commonsense reasoning
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TL;DR. AI's attempt to replicate the human ability to make educated guesses about ordinary, everyday situations.
Technical Definition
AI's attempt to replicate the human ability to make educated guesses about ordinary, everyday situations.
How it works
Commonsense reasoning is a subfield of AI focused on enabling machines to understand and make inferences about typical real-world scenarios. This involves applying implicit knowledge about physics, social interactions, and cause-and-effect that humans learn effortlessly.
Related Concepts
- Knowledge Representation — How facts and relationships are encoded so a system can reason over them.
- Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AI that can perform any intellectual task that a human being can.
- Commonsense knowledge — The vast store of implicit, everyday facts about the world that humans naturally understand and use.