The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: a resource for training and evaluating common sense in AI - Microsoft Research

AI has made major strides in the last decade, from beating the world champion of Go, to learning how to program, to telling fantastical short stories. However, a basic human trait continues to elude machines: common sense. Common sense is a big term with plenty of baggage, but it typically includes shared background knowledge (I know certain facts about the world, like "the sky is blue," and I know that you know them too), elements of logic, and the ability to infer what is plausible. It looms large as one of the hardest and most central problems in AI. Machines can seem glaringly unintelligent when they lack common sense.