Epistemology, Google. There are things you can know and things you cannot. Please do not treat them all the same. There does not exist a category of things the

Epistemology, Google. There are things you can know and things you cannot. Please do not treat them all the same. There does not exist a category of things the google can know when a question with semantic meaning is answered by trawling the web and looking for statically connections to the words and phrases in the question. I don't even think we have to take a peek into philosophy of what "knowledge" is to categorically deny that any output of that process could ever be called knowledge. My words fail me, the best explanation I've seen on machine learning 'facts' is: "The output of the algorithm is not a human-understandable fact. It is the result of complicated and unintuitive statistical properties of the input material. However, that data looks like facts we can easily understand" [0] "Don't be evil"? Cleaning up the result of such an algorithm so that it looks like a fact to a layperson is in a very real sense evil. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5tovk1/on_the_risks_of_creating_politically_biased_ai/ddonto7/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5tovk1/on_the_...