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Originally Posted by ApK
In my first session of listening to Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence - and Where It's Taking Us Next, Audiobook – Unabridged, by Luke Dormehl, I have already "learned" that Edison invented his light bulb in California, not here in New Jersey where we have the town named for him, and the monument built on the spot, and that "factoid," a word coined specifically to mean false facts published in gossip rags, actually just means 'fact,' and that at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker was a super-capable Jedi master.
With this degree of ignorance and lack of fact-checking in the first few chapters, why should I believe anything else this so-called journalist says? He should avoid science writing and stick to fiction and politics.
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I guess I won't be listening/reading that one.
Yea, I've run into this sort of thing before. A friend recommended a book on the Darknet to me and it had several howlers just in the intro. The big problem with this sort of thing is that once you discover that you can't trust an author, you have to take anything they say with a grain of salt.