Having interacted with a lot of computers over the years (including Google's for the last several of my employment), the machines at Google come as close to thinking as I've ever encountered. Two or three times a day they come up with answers that I cannot begin to comprehend how they arrived at. Sometimes they are brilliant, sometimes they are dumb, and sometimes they are merely mad.
They give every coworker I've ever had a run for their money on catching my fuckups.
Would you really prefer an accurate title like, "Google's machine-learning instant-answer algorithm's output is '15.81 light years from earth' when the input is 'how far away is the sun from the earth'"?
They give every coworker I've ever had a run for their money on catching my fuckups.