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The biggest problem with Google and medicine are the summary boxes and QA widgets up top, matching a search term to an excerpt. It's hilariously bad, it pulls
by snemvalts 4y ago
The biggest problem with Google and medicine are the summary boxes and QA widgets up top, matching a search term to an excerpt.
It's hilariously bad, it pulls misleading info out of context. It is probably responsible for more than zero deaths worldwide.
- SamBam 4y agoIt's really weird. One of the widget boxes rephrases some of your search into explicit questions, and then the result is an out-of-context snippet that is definitely not answering the question.
- nullc 4y agoIt's the best when it manages to give exactly the opposite advice to the source.
- wara23arish 4y agoThis is 100% true. While attending an NLP class in college, a speaker from Google came and spoke about how they evolved their systems etc. He admitted himself that results from those QA excerpts are hilariously wrong.
- jcranberry 4y agoSometimes they're alright but the new feature where if you open one ten more appear is annoying.