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Re:I’ve Seen the Greatest A.I. Minds of My Generation Destro... by thangalin on Sunday March 27, 2016 @05:04PM (#11371548)
This question requires either understanding or experiencing physics: gravity (a force that can cause objects to fall) and properties of glass (brittle) and iron (not brittle). The question also contains certain assumptions. For example, that the (hollow) glass ball is smaller than the (well-constructed, non-rusty) iron table. Lastly, answering this question depends on a deep comprehension of English combined with complex memory abilities.

If someone has solved this particular type of problem (Winograd Schema), I'd be keen to know.

https://www.cs.nyu.edu/davise/papers/WS.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge

http://commonsensereasoning.org/problem_page.html

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...

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Re:I’ve Seen the Greatest A.I. Minds of My Generation Destro... by basch on Sunday March 27, 2016 @08:04PM (#11372050)
couldnt you solve it with just a large enough dataset of language and grammar.

it refers to a breakable object made of either glass or iron. the ai then scans usages of the word shatter to see if it more commonly is used to describe glass or iron.

i searched google. "shatter iron" returns 500,000 results. "shatter glass" returns 2 million. 4/5 chance it refers to the item made of glass. in quotes the phrases return 4,640/186,000.

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Re:I’ve Seen the Greatest A.I. Minds of My Generation Destro... by tremon on Thursday March 31, 2016 @06:02AM (#11396043)
You can solve it for any specific instance of this structure. To solve the general case, you would need to teach an AI of the physical properties of and relationships between every word in the chosen language. That's much more than just language and grammar.

Wikipedia has another example (the original Winograd Schema) that doesn't allow you to "solve" the problem by asking Google:

  The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they feared violence.
  The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they advocated violence.
  To what does "they" refer in each sentence?
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