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Common Sense Computing: From the Society of Mind to Digital Intuition and beyond

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What is Common Sense Computing? And why is it so important for the technological evolution of humankind? This paper presents an overview of past, present and future efforts of the AI community to give computers the capacity for Common Sense reasoning, from Minsky’s Society of Mind to Media Laboratory’s Digital Intuition theory, and beyond. Is it actually possible to build a machine with Common Sense or is it just an utopia? This is the question this paper is trying to answer.

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  1. Dept. of Computing Science and Maths, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

    Erik Cambria & Amir Hussain

  2. MIT Media Lab, MIT, Massachusetts, USA

    Catherine Havasi

  3. Sitekit Labs, Sitekit Solutions Ltd, Scotland, UK

    Chris Eckl

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  1. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, C/ Francisco Tomas y Valiente 11, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Julian Fierrez  & Javier Ortega-Garcia  & 

  2. Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  3. EPFL, Speech Processing and Biometrics Group, EPFL-STI-IEL-LIDIAP, ELE 233, Station 11, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Andrzej Drygajlo

  4. Escola Universitària Politècnica de Mataró, Avda. Puig i Cadafalch 101-111, 08303, Mataro (Barcelona), Spain

    Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

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Cambria, E., Hussain, A., Havasi, C., Eckl, C. (2009). Common Sense Computing: From the Society of Mind to Digital Intuition and beyond. In: Fierrez, J., Ortega-Garcia, J., Esposito, A., Drygajlo, A., Faundez-Zanuy, M. (eds) Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication. BioID 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04391-8_33

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