Commonsense reasoning

Commonsense reasoning is one of the branches of Artificial intelligence (AI) that is concerned with simulating the human ability to make presumptions about the type and essence of ordinary situations they encounter every day. These assumptions include judgments about the physical properties, purpose, intentions and behavior of people and objects, as well as possible outcomes of their actions and interactions. A device that exhibits commonsense reasoning will be capable of predicting results and drawing conclusions that are similar to human’s folk psychology (human’s innate ability to reason about people’s behavior and intentions) and naive physics (human’s natural understanding of the physical world).