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VoiceOfRa comments on ClearerThinking's Fact-Checking 2.0 - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 22 October 2015 09:16PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 22 October 2015 10:43:17PM 2 points [-]

Do you think fact checking is an inherently more difficult problem then what Watson can do?

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 23 October 2015 01:28:32PM 3 points [-]

Yes, because Watson's corpus doesn't contain people lying. On the other hand, for political fact-checking the corpus is going to have tons of lies, half-truth, and BS.