Verbosities

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Verbosities

• A game to collect common sense data

Mihir Kedia
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Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
Introduction

• Artificial Intelligence
• Common Sense
• Verbosities

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AI the good
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
Introduction

• Artificial Intelligence has made many strides
  over the last several years.
• We have solid ideas on how to simulate a number
  of the thinking processes that are believed to
  make up intelligence.
• Neural networks
• Genetic algorithms

The good
The bad
The ugly
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AI the bad
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
Introduction

• There remain fundamental tasks that computers are
  currently incapable of carrying out.
• Many researchers have conjectured that common
  sense knowledge is needed for computers to be
  able to handle these tasks.

The good
The bad
The ugly
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Interludium What is common sense?
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
Introduction

• Ordinary knowledge
• Hundreds of millions of pieces of knowledge.
• Ordinary reasoning
• How to organize, retrieve, and manipulate various
  factoids.

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AI the ugly
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
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• The obvious problem is collecting common sense
  knowledge.
• Even worse, people are still attempting to
  determine how to represent common sense data.

The good
The bad
The ugly
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Common Sense
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
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• First attempt the Cyc project
• 1.5 million pieces of information collected over
  20 years.
• The OpenMind project
• Relies on netizens for factoids.
• Have collected very few facts.
• No way to verify correctness.

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Common Sense
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
Introduction

• Tell me 3 things I dont know about milk.

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Digressionem Taboo
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
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Verbosities
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
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• Problem 1 Why will people take the time to give
  us common sense facts?
• Solution Construct an entertaining game that
  gives us the information we need.

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Verbosities
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
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• Problem 2 How can we verify the correctness of
  the facts we collect with this game?
• Solution Use humans as verification make the
  game objectives such that they can only be
  completed given correct facts.
• Anonymous matching

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Verbosities Idea
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
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• Similar to Taboo, Pictionary, etc.
• Sentence templates
• ___ is a kind of ___
• ___ is similar to ___
• Various types of common sense knowledge can be
  retrieved by changing the templates.

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Terminus
Artificial Intelligence
Common Sense
Verbosities
Introduction
Mihir Kedia Luis von Ahn Manuel Blum