[PDF] Machines like Us: Toward AI with Common Sense Ronald J. Brachman; Hector Levesque

It?s sometime in the not-so-distant future, and you send your fully autonomous self-driving car to the store to pick up your grocery order. The car is endowed with as much capability as an artificial intelligence agent can have, programmed to drive better than you do. But when the car encounters a traffic light stuck on red, it just sits there?indefinitely. Its obstacle-avoidance, lane-following, and route-calculation capacities are all irrelevant; it fails to act because it lacks the common sense of a human driver, who would quickly figure out what?s happening and find a workaround. In Machines like Us, Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque?both leading experts in AI?consider what it would take to create machines with common sense rather than just the specialized expertise of today?s AI systems.