Lecture � Common sense reading group - ThoughtStreams

Greg Detre

Thursday, February 27, 2003

 

Presentation � Andrea, ThoughtStreams

Lenat example: Fred told the waiter he wanted some chips

see Charniak as the original inspiration

�shook his piggy bank and it didn�t make a sound ��

it has a notion of (indiscriminately ordered) prior events, and ordered prior events

Gary Drescher(sp???) � schemas of situation, operation + result

you could have a task that your agent has to succeed at, e.g. getting home when it rains when there�s no hairdryer, which you could try and teach it by showing it how

connect to OM or OM Experiences? OM Experiences is about collecting stories, sequences of actions for given templates

you could get a lot of data from the sensors in the house-n house, especially the old person experiment to find out changes in daily patterns as an indication of mental/physical health

others sims-like games

bbc released a game assisted by Imperial college

The World � oneline chat sim???

kobot + lambda mu (michael kearns)? � social reinforcement learning

also neverwinter nights, everquest, star wars, unreal tournaments

release an engine for game designers to build up a population of realistic offline characters for adventure games

knowledge as currency

difference between reasoning with common sense knowledge vs logical reasoning

all the inferences you could make (logical reasoning) vs all the inferences you would make (common sense reasoning)

Push doesn�t care about the cheap apartments problem, because it�s easy to fix or ignore � common sense is inherently buggy