{"id":126432,"date":"2021-08-18T09:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/an-ai-expert-explains-why-its-hard-to-give-computers-something-you-take-for-granted-common-sense"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:23:43","slug":"an-ai-expert-explains-why-its-hard-to-give-computers-something-you-take-for-granted-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/an-ai-expert-explains-why-its-hard-to-give-computers-something-you-take-for-granted-common-sense","title":{"rendered":"An AI expert explains why it\u2019s hard to give computers something you take for granted: Common sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rURRYI66E54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Quick \u2013 define common sense<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Despite being both universal and essential to how humans understand the world around them and learn, common sense has defied a single precise definition. G. K. Chesterton, an English philosopher and theologian, famously wrote at the turn of the 20th century that \u201ccommon sense is a wild thing, savage, and beyond rules.\u201d Modern definitions today agree that, at minimum, it is a natural, rather than formally taught, human ability that allows people to navigate daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Common sense is unusually broad and includes not only social abilities, like managing expectations and reasoning about other people\u2019s emotions, but also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cl.cam.ac.uk\/%7Eafb21\/publications\/masters\/node28.html\">naive sense of physics<\/a>, such as knowing that a heavy rock cannot be safely placed on a flimsy plastic table. Naive, because people know such things despite not consciously working through physics equations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick \u2013 define common sense Despite being both universal and essential to how humans understand the world around them and learn, common sense has defied a single precise definition. G. K. Chesterton, an English philosopher and theologian, famously wrote at the turn of the 20th century that \u201ccommon sense is a wild thing, savage, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}