The podcast makes a claim, “What’s pretty much impossible is creating a computer program that understands context” However, a computer program to discover context was created well over five decades ago. Joseph Weizenbaum, in his Computational Linguistics paper published January 1966 says, “The fundamental technical problems with which ELIZA is concerned are: (1) the identification of key words, (2) the discovery of minimal context,”
Reference: https://web.stanford.edu/class/linguist238/p36-weizenabaum.pdf