&gt; The hard part is that we cannot define what is meaning - maybe we can&#x27;t, I&#x27;m not sure<p>I think you&#x27;ve correctly identified the million dollar question in AI, and that&#x27;s why I believe the major breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence won&#x27;t come from scientific researchers. They might even come from PG&#x27;s dreaded literary theory types, ones who are also talented programmers (...Lit theory being maybe the only field that thinks about structuralism, deconstruction, how meaning is manufactured, etc. - things outright dismissed by the scientific community as useless, but which still hold potential to produce a &#x27;meaning algorithm&#x27;).