Remembered framework

The field of artificial intelligence(AI) has provided a further approach to how people understands one another. AI makes proposals about how to stimulate intelligent systems on computers. The original problem was one of finding out how computers could be made to cope with inexplicit and superficially irrelevant conversations
Salesman: pink sinks are the latest fashion, madam
Customer: My dish –washer’s red
A solution proposed for the computer might also be one utilized by humans. Knowledge, it was suggested, might be stored in the form of stereotypicalsituations, or frames. These memorized framework are adapted to fit in with present reality. So they are altered as required. So for example, a person mighthave a frame representing a typical kitchen, and would have ‘slots’ in the frame of sinks.
A superficially disjointed conversation, such as the one above, would become quiet coherent when considered in relation to the kitchen frame in a person’s mind. Furthermore the speakers in this conversation clearly ave a certain amount of mutual knowledge, in that they both have similar outline kitchen frame. Another way of dealing with human interaction, therefore, is to specify both the relevant frames and the mutual knowledge held in common by the participants.