Software Brittleness Problem
The software brittleness problem is a consequence of the well-known fact that computers carry out commands, rather than exhibiting initiative.
A computer system with true initiative would have large amounts of practical knowledge about the real world. When it could not carry out some instruction, it would look for an alternative method of accomplishing an equivalent result.
Instead, as of this date (2008) programs usually just fail with an error message.
There are several approaches to solving the brittleness problem.
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