The Curious Case of Commonsense Intelligence

Abstract Commonsense intelligence is a long-standing puzzle in AI. Despite considerable advances deep learning, AI continues to be narrow and brittle due its lack of common sense. Why sense so trivial for humans but hard machines? In this essay, I map the twists turns recent research adventures toward commonsense As we will see, latest on are riddled with new, potentially counterintuitive perspectives questions. particular, discuss significance language modeling intuitive reasoning, fundamental limitations logic formalisms despite their intellectual appeal, case on-the-fly generative reasoning through language, continuum between knowledge blend symbolic neural representations.