Knowledge representation and reasoning

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning is like playing a really big game of remember. Imagine you're playing a game with a bunch of things like pictures, letters, words, and numbers–all laid out on a table. Your job is to remember all the things you see and how they fit together. That's the same idea as Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: figuring out how to remember, organize, and use information. When you have information, like facts and ideas, you need to be able to put them in a way that makes sense, so that you can use that information to make decisions or solve problems.

In this game, you would be like a computer. Computers use knowledge representation and reasoning to take in information, organize it, and then use it to make decisions and solve problems. For example, if you had a list of ingredients for a recipe, a computer using knowledge representation and reasoning could use that information to figure out how to make the dish without having to be told how to do it. Knowledge representation and reasoning is how a computer can "understand” things like recipes.