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After reading “A common sense computer?” (Editorial, Aug. 26) about the Ebot2, a robot that does housework, and the recent efforts to endow A.I.-type machines with “common sense,” I was wondering where the computer scientists obtained their criteria to determine a common-sense model program. I shudder to think they would use what are loosely termed “common-sense” data derived from human subjects.
An A.I. machine constructed sans a human common-sense database would take one look (scan) at the humans queued up at state lottery purchase sites and would then quickly conclude: “These entities are imbued with a sense that appears to be common; therefore I shall consider the programmer of my major components indispensable.”
