Re: computer-go: Pattern matching

["Jeff Massung" <jmassung@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Common sense can mean different things, though, and some of which CAN be 
represented on a computer very easily; example:

It is common sense that if you put your hand on a stove burner that is 
turned on, you will get burned.  In a computer system, these kinds of common 
sense issues are hard coded into the program.

if (IsBurnerOn()==TRUE) { ... }
else { ... }

While there are common sense issues in GO, there aren't that many - don't 
play with dead groups, don't start in the middle, etc.

So I disagree with Patricia on this area of common sense.  I agree with her 
in the common sense issue of LEARNING common sense.  How would the computer 
know the burner was on or that it was hot?  Would a computer be burned 
(sensory input needed)?  Most common sense issues have to deal with learning 
through experience (hard knox), and therefore cannot be taught (hard coded).

Just my $0.02,
Jeff

> Patricia Hughes and David Elsdon wrote:
> >
> > Give me an example of knowledge that cannot be represented on a > 
> machine.
>
> In a course on expert-systems I was told, and I now believe it,
> that "common sence" is very very very very very very hard to represent
> and maybe even impossible.
> But that is because you don't know what you know so maybe I am
> cheating when I use common sence as an example.
>
> Greetz, Pieter
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