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by FireBeyond 277 days ago
Ahh, it's called the Scunthorpe problem! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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> The problem arises since computers can easily identify strings of text within a document, but interpreting words of this kind requires considerable ability to interpret a wide range of contexts, possibly across many cultures, which is an extremely difficult task.

Humans have issues with such tasks, too, apparently. Hence their push to change IT terminology, e.g. master -> main git branch.