Answers for the Written Exam of the Technical Area of my Qualifying Exam
Stefan Marti · 2002
at can be found in an encyclopedia, putting focus on the knowledge that is assumed from a reader. . Guha et al. (1994) [5]: Commonsense knowledge is what a high-school teacher assumes students have already when they enter the classroom. It consists of a vocabulary and knowledge about the A problem with the idea of "common sense" is that it seems to cover so many subjects and situations. What is the scope of knowledge that we call "common sense" --- how do you decide what's included and what's excluded? Is common sense an "AI-Complete" problem? That is, is there a way to get a computer that has a reasonable degree of common sense without having to solve the entire AI problem first? page 2 of 7 vocabulary. Expected are notions about time, space, causality, human capabilities, limitations, goals, emotions, familiarity with art, literature, history, etc. Such a definition would exclude K-12 educational knowledge as well as all later acquired school and academic knowledge from being com