“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield advised his son. But common sense doesn’t stay that way. While it appears ...

A group of New York University psychologists are taking strides toward making artificial intelligence smarter, by testing whether these algorithms can learn common sense. For now, the smallest among ...

While each person tends to have their own definition of what collective "common sense" actually is — and believes that they ...

The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important ...

"Appears to lack common sense." Those five words appeared at the bottom of my third-grade report card. It fit. So many of the unwritten rules that others seemed to know intuitively, I only learned ...

Professor, English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture; Academic Director, Re.Climate: Centre for Climate Communication and Public Engagement, Carleton ...

Hot trends in corporate culture and management technique evolve from decade to decade, often in alignment with prevailing social trends. Recently, the “empowered workplace” has become popular, ...

Common sense is the product of these expectations and conventions: the set of assumptions that helps us think collectively. If our goal is to substitute a common sense founded on an inclusionary ...