This investment is twice the original budget of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence for the next three years, which not only supports the operation of existing projects, but also opens up new projects that teach computer 'common sense', the new project called ' Project Alexandria. "In the coming years, the Institute hopes to create a database of basic knowledge that humans already have, a common sense that computers lack today.
Allen said: 'In order to make real progress in the field of artificial intelligence, we must address one of the major challenges now facing the computer is the lack of common sense.' Alan Allen in the 1970s with Bill Gates founded the present Software giant Microsoft.
Today, computers have been able to perform objects that recognize the surrounding environment with high accuracy, record language conversations, and automatically translate tasks that were previously performed by humans alone, a precision that was not possible more than a decade ago.Artificial Intelligence Researchers In other areas have also made good achievements, such as driverless cars, warehouse robots, intelligent voice assistant and so on.
However, the machine nowadays often encounters difficulties when it comes to other tasks that humans consider essential, for example, although the intelligent voice assistant Siri can well recognize what you are saying, she can only answer simple questions and execute the basics The driverless car can not do anything when it comes to poor traffic conditions or conditions not previously encountered.
According to Oren Etzioni, a former director of Allen's Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a former Washington University professor, 'Artificial Intelligence recognizes objects but does not explain exactly what it sees, although it recognizes books 'S words, but can not understand the hidden problems behind the words, which is the lack of common sense.
It would prove difficult to teach human beings already common sense about computer science, and may require researchers to work for years or decades, and researchers have tried to digitize common sense, but found the task too cumbersome.
In the 1980s, Stan Len Stanley, a professor at Stanford University, got funding from the U.S. government and large technology companies to start a project called Cyc. Together with his team members, Work to digitize all the simple facts that we humans learned during childhood, from 'You can not be in two places at the same time' to 'To open a lid from the cup to drink first.'
Thirty years have passed and Mr. Reynat and his team are still working on this 'common sense engine' and there are no signs of stopping, and Allen is also one of the sponsors of the Cyc project and he believes it is time to adopt A completely new approach to doing this is because modern AI techniques are better at building such a system.
Mr. Lehner welcomes the addition of new technologies, which have cost tens of millions of dollars and solved the myriad of problems that were not at the beginning of the project.