Microsoft co-founder launches $125m fund to teach AI common sense

Called Project Alexandria, Allen's basing the research effort out of his Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle. It will first seek to produce standard measurements to determine the common sense abilities of AI models. Once it's possible to calculate whether something has common sense, researchers will be better placed to start figuring out how to teach it. Project Alexandria will be looking at ways to crowdsource common sense knowledge from individuals. By collecting common sense reactions "at an unprecedented scale," Alexandria will aim to develop a dataset sufficiently comprehensive to train an AI model.