Knowledge Representation
John McCarthy, 1958:
- “In order for a program to be capable of learning something it must first be capable of being told it.”
- “We shall say that a program has common sense if it automatically deduces for itself a sufficiently wide class of immediate consequences of anything it is told and what it already knows.”
From the Advice Taker paper
(“Programs with Common Sense”; reprinted in Semantic Information Processing; edited by M. Minsky; MIT Press; 1968)