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From pizza delivery robots to funeral rites, what happens when AI has no common sense?
Professor Martin Bauer from LSE's Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, explores why the machines we build are missing something fundamentally human. Decades after common sense was side-lined as AI's founding ambition, he considers the scenario of bringing it back. But what would a truly common sense machine actually look like?
From pizza delivery robots to funeral rites, what happens when AI has no common sense?
Professor Martin Bauer from LSE's Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, explores why the machines we build are missing something fundamentally human. Decades after common sense was side-lined as AI's founding ambition, he considers the scenario of bringing it back. But what would a truly common sense machine actually look like?
