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Those results, like i guess i don't want google to be an arbiter of truth. i feel like there's a transparency now that when i google something on google i understand there's an algorithm that basically is crunching popularity in some way. and i'm fine with that. and i'm fine understanding that maybe one of the results for barack obama nationality is he's kenyan, because there's a lot of people who believe that amazingly. but i don't need them to be my arbiter of truth. >> interestingly, in some sense they already kind of are. this paper needs to be thought of in a context where google actually...

>> i feel like we're in pretty deep philosophical ground here. do we trust an algorithm to determine truth in abstract sense? >> it's tricky. we should emphasize that the kinds of facts that they have in their repository are what we would, i think we would think of as simple facts. barack obama's nationality, he was born in the united states. that's a very simple fact. it's not -- there's a scientific consensus although there's remaining uncertainty, global warming is caused by humans. it's not nuanced facts. so because it's automated, there's a limit right now to the kinds of facts we're talk...