18 People That Wipe The Floor With Common Sense

Robert Whitman-Byrne
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022

Common sense is the knowledge that all humans have. Such knowledge is unspoken and unwritten – we take it for granted. We acquire it imperceptibly from the day we are born. For example, “animals don’t drive cars” or “my mother is older than me”. This knowledge is often used by human experts even when solving very narrow, domain-specific tasks. This common-sense knowledge is something that we learn through experience and curiosity without even being aware of it. We also acquire a great deal of it in our lifetimes.
One of the founding fathers of AI, John McCarthy, was amongst the first to realize its importance. He wrote a paper that was the first to propose common sense reasoning through a hypothetical program called Advice Taker in 1959. This paper only described a specification for what a common-sense program should do. However, it soon became apparent that there was a need for working common sense knowledge programs to assist decision making in AI expert systems. These systems represented the first commercial boom period for AI, so common sense knowledge became seen as an essential adjunct for their success.

18 People That Wipe The Floor With Common Sense

#1 Nosferatu

#2 The joy of being single

#3 Pay phone use in 2018

#4 Uber is expanding

#5 “Wife said we’re having Mexican tonight.”

#6 Thanksgiving is coming…

#7 We’ve hired a new mechanic. He’s a little weird.

#8 The correct way to customize the unused buttons in your car:

#9 Meals on wheels!

#10 The Riddler

#11 Why have one laptop if you can have 2?

#12 I’d say she’s got the beauty part covered…

#13 Now that’s dealing with baggage!

#14 Why not?

#15 “Teacher, I think Tommy is broken.”

#16 They told me bananas were an energizing fruit…

#17 Crazy hair day

#18 Never know when you might need one…