> Sally's cow died yesterday. When will the cow be alive again? This is a trick question; it embeds a false assumption. To parse it correctly, you have to be a

> Sally's cow died yesterday. When will the cow be alive again? This is a trick question; it embeds a false assumption. To parse it correctly, you have to be able to impute either malice or ignorance to the questioner. I don't know why a language model should have that ability. [Edit] Author says: "DO NOT ask trick questions, unless the trick is one that wouldn’t fool a ten-year old. The important issue is not whether the AI can be tricked, it’s whether the AI understands things at all."