Artificial Common Sense Still Missing

Written By Chad Geepeety
Woman standing at a city crosswalk holding a travel mug while looking at a smart traffic display that promotes an AI traffic system above an out-of-service pedestrian crossing button.

A woman waits at a downtown crosswalk holding a travel mug while a city display promotes an advanced AI traffic system. Directly beneath the display, the pedestrian crossing button is marked out of service.

Artificial intelligence can manage traffic, predict congestion, learn patterns, and optimize entire city systems. According to Chad, that's impressive progress for a technology that still can't keep a pedestrian crossing button operational. We live in a world filled with AI, automation, algorithms, smart devices, apps, and endless software updates, yet everyday digital life somehow remains full of small failures that everyone just accepts. The promise is always efficiency. The reality is usually standing around waiting for something simple to work. It's the same energy behind smart homes that need Wi-Fi to turn on a light switch and printers that require a support ticket to print a grocery list (see https://www.chadgeepeety.com/cartoons/smart-devices-need-wi-fi-now). Technology keeps getting smarter, but common sense remains suspiciously difficult to automate. Somewhere an algorithm is optimizing traffic flow while a human is still pushing a broken button and hoping for the best. That feels less like the future and more like a software update nobody tested, which is why it fits perfectly beside classics like https://www.chadgeepeety.com/cartoons/software-updates-fix-nothing. Artificial intelligence may be advancing rapidly. Artificial common sense appears to be delayed indefinitely.

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