Methods and apparatus to add common sense reasoning to artificial intelligence in the context of human machine interfaces

A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising machine readable instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least:

• generate a first virtual response to a first user input based on artificial intelligence;
• determine a first virtual consequence of the first virtual response is negative;
• at least one of 1) ignore the first user input, 2) request clarification from a user, or 3) request additional information from the user;
• generate a second virtual response to a second user input;
• determine a second virtual consequence of the second virtual response is positive;
• and
• cause an output device to output a non-virtual response based on the second virtual response.

A method to operate a human machine interface, the method comprising:

• generating, by executing an instruction with processor circuitry, a virtual response to a user input;
• determining, by executing an instruction with the processor circuitry, a virtual consequence of the virtual response;
• in response to the virtual consequence evaluating as negative, ignoring the user input;
• and
• in response to the virtual consequence evaluating as positive, causing an output device to output a non-virtual response to the user input, the non-virtual response generated by artificial intelligence.