https://www.quantamagazine.org/common-sense-comes-to-computers-20200430/
artificial intelligence
Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers
The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress.
John Pavlus
Contributing Correspondent
April 30, 2020
“Now, Choi and her collaborators have united these approaches. COMET (short for “commonsense transformers”) extends GOFAI-style symbolic reasoning with the latest advances in neural language modeling — a kind of deep learning that aims to imbue computers with a statistical “understanding” of written language.”