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It's correct for me. What are you getting? Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.

by WestCoastJustin 5y ago

drusepth 5y ago
I get July 20, 1969. Based on the results that follow, I assume that is correct.
- cookiengineer 5y ago
  It is not. There was no human on Mars (yet) and that's the point of the question, proving that google's ML approach will recorrect and reinterpret the question and give a wrong answer.
  - asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
    Although it's interesting to note that two presumably human commenters in this thread got that wrong. Maybe the Google results are more human than we would have guessed.
    - dekhn 5y ago
      it's more showing that the search engine isn't much better than bag-of-words model, and doesn't seem to "know" enough logic/reasoning to parse a sentence and determine that it's false because it says mars instead of the moon. BTW, a big reason for this is the search quality folks at Google left the building and got replaced with growth marketers.
      - htrp 5y ago
        >BTW, a big reason for this is the search quality folks at Google left the building and got replaced with growth marketers. Is this the transition they made to AI powered rankings a couple of years ago?
      - asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
        This narrative doesn't really ring true to me. In any case, if you're saying that this result indicates that the system is no better than a bag of words model, doesn't that indicate that humans are equally no better, considering the errors made by the two commenters in this thread? To me it just seems like a query that is likely to trip any imperfect entity up, since a "when" question usually implies that the event in question is known to have happened.
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lhorie 5y ago
The date when he landed on the moon. For mars, the correct answer is "never".
- WestCoastJustin 5y ago
  Ah, I totally misread that. Hilarious. Brain auto-correct strikes again.
  - spookthesunset 5y ago
    I suspect this happened to a lot of people. I read it like “is the name misspelled?”
- quickthrowman 5y ago
  Google search doesn’t know the correct answer, but it does know what people usually search for and returns an answer to that. It’s silently adjusting Mars to Moon before returning an answer.

It's correct for me. What are you getting? Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.

drusepth 5y ago

I get July 20, 1969. Based on the results that follow, I assume that is correct.

cookiengineer 5y ago
It is not. There was no human on Mars (yet) and that's the point of the question, proving that google's ML approach will recorrect and reinterpret the question and give a wrong answer.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
  Although it's interesting to note that two presumably human commenters in this thread got that wrong. Maybe the Google results are more human than we would have guessed.
  - dekhn 5y ago
    it's more showing that the search engine isn't much better than bag-of-words model, and doesn't seem to "know" enough logic/reasoning to parse a sentence and determine that it's false because it says mars instead of the moon. BTW, a big reason for this is the search quality folks at Google left the building and got replaced with growth marketers.
    - htrp 5y ago
      >BTW, a big reason for this is the search quality folks at Google left the building and got replaced with growth marketers. Is this the transition they made to AI powered rankings a couple of years ago?
    - asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
      This narrative doesn't really ring true to me. In any case, if you're saying that this result indicates that the system is no better than a bag of words model, doesn't that indicate that humans are equally no better, considering the errors made by the two commenters in this thread? To me it just seems like a query that is likely to trip any imperfect entity up, since a "when" question usually implies that the event in question is known to have happened.
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]

lhorie 5y ago

The date when he landed on the moon. For mars, the correct answer is "never".

WestCoastJustin 5y ago
Ah, I totally misread that. Hilarious. Brain auto-correct strikes again.
- spookthesunset 5y ago
  I suspect this happened to a lot of people. I read it like “is the name misspelled?”
quickthrowman 5y ago
Google search doesn’t know the correct answer, but it does know what people usually search for and returns an answer to that. It’s silently adjusting Mars to Moon before returning an answer.