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Some Expert System Need Common Sense
Some Expert Systems Need Common Sense was first published in Computer Culture: The Scientific, Intellectual and Social Impact of the Computer, Heinz Pagels, ed. vol. 426, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.Some Expert Systems Need Common Sense was first published in Computer Culture: The Scientific, Intellectual and Social Impact of the Computer, Heinz Pagels, ed. vol. 426, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
An expert system is a computer program intended to embody the knowledge and ability of an expert in a certain domain. The ideas behind them and several examples have been described in other lectures in this symposium. Their performance in their specialized domains are often very impressive. Nevertheless, hardly any of them have certain common sense knowledge and ability possessed by any non-feeble-minded human. This lack makes them "brittle". By this is meant that they are difficult to extend beyond the scope originally contemplated by their designers, and they usually don't recognize their own limitations. Many important applications will require common sense abilities. The object of this lecture is to describe common sense abilities and the problems that require them.
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