University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers Robert Sloan and Gyorgy Turan have received a three-year, $500,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop artificial intelligence algorithms that can process new pieces of information and evolve from them–essentially, an artificial form of common sense. “It’s been the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence research since its early days to answer questions that a young child can answer about the world,” Sloan says. “We’re still a long way from that.” Sloan and Turan will examine the construction of knowledge-based systems such as Cycorp’s Cyc and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Open Mind Common Sense. Users of these systems can enter any data they like into the algorithms. The researchers plan to work out how to key in conflicting data, how to store new data quickly, and how a machine can also evolve from this knowledge. “Our task is to understand the problem, find useful mathematical models, understand the basic mathematical properties and, hopefully, provide some efficient computational methods and algorithms in those models,” Turan says. The researchers plan to study common sense knowledge bases and the mathematical methods that can support them.

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