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I'm not convinced that context is as hard as people think. I think the answer "she broke her hip" is the appropriate answer there.

The other answers are appropriate for other questions ("How did Aunt Minnie get to hospital" etc).

OTOH.. I'm disagreeing with Feynman here. That gives me some pause.




The answer from an intelligent alien who was context-naive might be something like so:

Aunt Minnie is a human being living in the 21st century Western culture of Earth. When humans in this region and time period become sick or injured, relatives and friends, or medical workers working on their behalf, will transport them to a hospital for treatment. Aunt Minnie was injured on a sidewalk made slippery by seasonal ice. Such injuries aren't uncommon but are treatable with various surgical and therapeutic techniques. This demonstrates the humans vulnerability and heralds our inevitable victory to harvest them as a source of food.


It is indeed the appropriate answer here, that seems pretty clear to me. What's not clear is how we both came to the same (or similar) conception of what's the right answer from all those possible, arguably correct, answers.

This is basically a restatement of the Frame Problem, which I believe is an unsolvable problem if you limit yourself to software. This is basically my PhD, and I only reached this opinion after much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

In some sense this program isn't limited entirely to software, but extends to the full gamut of cultural human lived experience, by exploiting the intelligence already present in the input corpus.




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