ABSTRACT
McCarthy (2006) stated that the human brain has important innate knowledge, e.g., that the world includes 3-dimensional objects that usually persist even when not observed. The mainstream approach to AGI is a big-data approach, featuring a large commonsense knowledge base as characterized by John McCarthy (2006): indeed, it is worthwhile to build as much knowledge as possible into our robots. He elaborated: “A key problem for both AI and philosophy is understanding common sense knowledge and abilities. We treat the notion of the common sense informatic situation, the situation a person or computer program is in when the knowledge available is partial both as to observation and as to theory, and ill-defined concepts must be used. Concepts ill-defined in general may be precise in specialized contexts.”
