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Paul Allen Wants to Teach Machines Common Sense

FILE -- A display to show Amazon Alexa's integration with smart home electronics gadgets, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Dec. 9, 2017. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, said Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, that he is pumping an additional $125 million into his nonprofit computer research lab, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, for an ambitious new effort to teach machines “common sense.” (Roger Kisby/The New York Times)