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

2. Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities

3. Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
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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

4. Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
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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

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

6. AI: the ugly The obvious problem is collecting common sense knowledge.
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
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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

7. Common Sense First attempt: the Cyc project The OpenMind project
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
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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.

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

9. Digressionem: Taboo Introduction Artificial Intelligence Common Sense
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Digressionem: Taboo

10. Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
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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.

11. Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
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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

12. Verbosities: Idea Similar to Taboo, Pictionary, etc.
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
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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.

13. Terminus Mihir Kedia Luis von Ahn Manuel Blum Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
Terminus
Mihir Kedia
Luis von Ahn
Manuel Blum