# Teaching Computers to Think

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**Created:** [October 18, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/teaching-computers-to-think/33336 "2003-10-18T01:51:19Z")\
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[http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/17/internet.game.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/17/internet.game.ap/index.html)

> “Computers don’t know very much about the world – like that clouds are fluffy, and the sky is blue, and people sleep at night. It’s called common-sense knowledge; that’s actually a technical term,” said Push Singh, a graduate student researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “If you buy a copy of Microsoft Windows it can do all sorts of applications, but it doesn’t have any common sense in it.”