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I think there's a legitimate distinction between Google returning a list of links in response to "Find me all the holocaust denial stuff" and google presenting
by Traster 6y ago
I think there's a legitimate distinction between Google returning a list of links in response to "Find me all the holocaust denial stuff" and google presenting a single authoritative answer to questions. Google isn't saying "here is what everyone thinks, sorted by relevance", Google is saying "Here is what everyone thinks, but first let me tell you what I think, and I think X".
- aaron695 6y agoYes, but all the answers are correct - "What year did Tom Hanks land on the moon" "1970" is a legitimate answer. Nonsense followed by nonsense as per first year Philosophy/Propositional Logic is a correct statement. You can't try and trick Google by inputting rubbish and claim you are smarter because really you wanted Google to say "This makes no sense", when really you didn't. Randall got exactly what he wanted from Google, funny answers to funny questions.
- craftinator 6y ago> "What year did Tom Hanks land on the moon" "1970" is a legitimate answer. I'm just going to leave this here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
- floe 6y agoI'm amused by the implication that if Google has even one piece of incorrect information in its knowledge corpus, it's justified in returning absolutely any answer to any question. You can deduce anything from a contradiction, after all.