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My favorite example: 'can <x> cut through <y>?'

You can put just about anything in there for x and y, and it will almost always get it right. Can a pair of scissors cut through a boeing 747? Can a carrot cut through loose snow? A chainsaw cut through a palm leaf? Nailclippers through a rubber tire?

Because of combinatorics, the space of ways objects can interact is too big to memorize, so it can only answer if it has learned something real about materials and their properties.



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