Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be closer to common sense, but that doesn't make it close. Part of the problem is figuring our how we as humans learn common sense. As Leora Morgenstern says, "What you learn when you're two or four years old, you don't really ever put down in a book." This article provides some background about previous attempts to solve the problem and them looks at Commonsense Transformers (COMET). "The idea is to teach intelligent agents to interact with the world the way a child does. Instead of associating the idea of eating with a textual description, an intelligent agent would be told, 'We are now going to eat,' and then it would see the associated actions such as, gathering food from the refrigerator, preparing the meal, and then see its consumption." Even if you don't think COMET is plausible, the background summary is quite informative and worth reading in its own right.
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