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

2. Artificial Intelligence Common Sense Verbosities Introduction Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

3. 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 Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

4. 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 Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

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

6. 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 Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

7. 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. Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

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

9. Digressionem: Taboo Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

10. 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. Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

11. 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 Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

12. 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. Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction

13. Terminus Mihir Kedia Luis von Ahn Manuel Blum Artificial IntelligenceCommon SenseVerbositiesIntroduction