Yesterday there was a short item on the Dutch radio about a query for Siri: "When will world war 3 happen?". Somehow Siri would give an exact date in the future

Yesterday there was a short item on the Dutch radio about a query for Siri: "When will world war 3 happen?". Somehow Siri would give an exact date in the future but nobody knows why that date was chosen. The concepts in the question are clear for current systems. 'When' is a clear concept about a time question (concept of past and future might be mixed up). 'World war 3' can also be a concept that current systems 'understand'. Lets say there is a news article that says: "If Trump wins the elections world war 3 will happen". And another article says: "When Trump wins the poll on 2016-11-05 he might win the elections". Siri might combine this into: "World war 3 will happen on 2016-11-05". But Siri doesn't know the context in which the question was asked. And I think the only way to get this right is: * ask about the context * track everything a user does to estimate the context I think the movie Her[1] does this. The OS is constantly asking him questions so 'she' can learn about his context. And of course the first question the OS is asking is brilliant: "How is your relationship with your mother". [1]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/