

The commonsense of the near future
It is a truism that most of us carry out our everyday commonsense tasks with very little conscious effort or analysis. Indeed to find everyday tasks formidably complex can often be a sign of mental illness or disability. The world of artificial intelligence, however, shows that commonsense is actually very complex and that commonsense reasoning is very difficult to simulate with a computer. Our scientific understanding of commonsense is likely to change as we gradually unders