Teaching computers how the world fits together is a tricky business. No matter how much data you feed an algorithm, there are certain types of knowledge that can’t easily be written down. Answers to questions like, “Who should I go for drinks with this evening: my friends, a rhino, or the Pope?” and “Can I eat spaghetti with a straw?” (The answer to the latter being “Yes, but only with a lot of patience.”)
But AI researchers say they have a tool that might help: Pictionary. Today, scientists from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) released an online Pictionary-style game called Iconary, which they say could help sharpen AI’s common sense. In Iconary, players must illustrate complex scenes like “a crowd celebrating a…
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