Epstein Secrets

987) as an effort to eliminate and unify components rather than to accumulate and diversify them, as in the Minsky- Sloman proposals. Ashwin Ram and Larry Birnbaum both pointed out that despite the agreement over the architectural proposals it was still not clear what the particular components of the architectu

mans, such as solving integrals, they have difficulty performing commonsense tasks that are easy for humans, such as understanding stories. In this Technical Forum contribution, we discuss commonsense reasoning and what makes it difficult for computers. We contend that commonsense reasoning is too hard a proble

1987) as an effort to eliminate and unify components rather than to accumulate and diversify them, as in the Minsky- Slam= proposals. Ashwin Ram and Larry Birnbaum both pointed out that despite the agreement over the architectural proposals it was still not clear what the particular components of the architectu

mans, such as solving integrals, they have difficulty performing commonsense tasks that are easy for humans, such as understanding stories. In this Technical Forum contribution, we discuss commonsense reasoning and what makes it difficult for computers. We contend that commonsense reasoning is too hard a proble

&Mehl, Note (I.) This meeting was held in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, on April 14-16, 2002. The meeting included the following participants: Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University), Ken Forbus (Northwestern University), Ben Kuipers (University of Texas at Austin),,las Lanai (Cycorp), Henry Lieberman (

mans, such as solving integrals, they have difficulty performing commonsense tasks that are easy for humans, such as understanding stories. In this Technical Forum contribution, we discuss commonsense reasoning and what makes it difficult for computers. We contend that commonsense reasoning is too hard a proble