"Machines Like Us, for those who want to better understand a key part of intelligence we still haven t been able to clarify and build for artificial intelligence, is an excellent overview. Forbes
"Machines Like Us provides a fresh perspective on potential areas of research, courtesy of two scientists who have been deeply involved in artificial intelligence since the 1970s." Ben Dickson, TechTalks
Preview ix 1 The Road to Common Sense 1 2 Common Sense in Humans 9 3 Expertise in AI Systems 25 4 Knowledge and Its Representation 51 5 A Commonsense Understanding of the World 67 6 Commonsense Knowledge 83 7 Representation and Reasoning, Part I 113 8 Representation and Reasoning, Part II 137 9 Common Sense in Action 159 10 Steps toward Implementation 183 11 Building Trust 197 Epilogue 215 Appendix 219 Bonus Chapter: The Logic of Common Sense 227 Acknowledgments 247 Notes 249 Bibliography 279 Index 297 About the Authors 305
Ronald J. Brachman is Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. During a long career in industry, he held leadership positions at Bell Labs, Yahoo, and DARPA. Hector J. Levesque is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI (MIT Press), and other books.