Can AI have common sense? Finding out will be key to achieving machine intelligence

Abstract

Since their public release less than two years ago, large language models (LLMs) such as those that underlie ChatGPT have unleashed exciting and provocative progress in machine intelligence. Some researchers and commentators have speculated that these tools could represent a decisive step towards machines that demonstrate ‘artificial general intelligence’ — the range of abilities associated with human intelligence — thereby fulfilling a 70-year quest in artificial-intelligence (AI) research.