A game to collect common sense data Verbosities A game to collect common sense data Mihir Kedia

Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities

Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities AI: the good Artificial Intelligence has made many strides over the last several years. We have solid ideas on how to simulate a number of the thinking processes that are believed to make up intelligence. Neural networks Genetic algorithms The good The bad The ugly

Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities AI: the bad There remain fundamental tasks that computers are currently incapable of carrying out. Many researchers have conjectured that common sense knowledge is needed for computers to be able to handle these tasks. The good The bad The ugly

Interludium: What is common sense? Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Interludium: What is common sense? Ordinary knowledge Hundreds of millions of pieces of knowledge. Ordinary reasoning How to organize, retrieve, and manipulate various factoids.

AI: the ugly The obvious problem is collecting common sense knowledge. Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities AI: the ugly The obvious problem is collecting common sense knowledge. Even worse, people are still attempting to determine how to represent common sense data. The good The bad The ugly

Common Sense First attempt: the Cyc project The OpenMind project Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Common Sense First attempt: the Cyc project 1.5 million pieces of information collected over 20 years. The OpenMind project Relies on “netizens” for factoids. Have collected very few facts. No way to verify correctness.

Tell me 3 things I don’t know about milk. Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Common Sense Tell me 3 things I don’t know about milk.

Digressionem: Taboo Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Digressionem: Taboo

Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Verbosities Problem #1: Why will people take the time to give us common sense facts? Solution: Construct an entertaining game that gives us the information we need.

Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Verbosities Problem #2: How can we verify the correctness of the facts we collect with this game? Solution: Use humans as verification – make the game objectives such that they can only be completed given correct facts. Anonymous matching

Verbosities: Idea Similar to Taboo, Pictionary, etc. Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Verbosities: Idea Similar to Taboo, Pictionary, etc. Sentence templates ___ is a kind of ___ ___ is similar to ___ Various types of common sense knowledge can be retrieved by changing the templates.

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