AI Hasn’t Mastered Common Sense Yet

Most of us have come across individuals who are extremely intelligent yet lack common sense. We make a difference between the two. You can be an expert in mathematics and still behave foolishly. That's essentially how AI works. It may be extremely intelligent, but it lacks common sense.

We define abductive inference as common sense. This is what enables us to dismiss the vast majority of absurd explanations for events in life and concentrate on the ones that make the most sense. Because of this, if you hear a disturbance upstairs, you could assume it is coming from your spouse or the cat rather than an elephant or Gordon Ramsay.

You have common sense, so those final two choices seem absurd. AI must take those into account as possibilities, as it doesn't. Deep learning and symbolic logic are the foundations of modern AI. These provide a wealth of explanations but ignore common sense, which is why AI is unable to match genuine human intellect.