year: 2015

authors:

Ernest Davis, Dept. of Computer Science, New York University

Gary Marcus, Dept. of Psychology, New York University

tldr; commonsense reasoning is hard.

research areas that require commonsense reasoning

• NLP
• computer vision
• robots

Areas of reasoning that have had success:

• reasoning about taxonomic categories
• reasoning about time (though natural language descriptions of time are hard)
• reasoning about actions and change
• sign calculus

Challenges:

1. many of the domains involved in commonsense reasoning are only partially understood or virtually untouched.