Google, how old is the president?(google.com)
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Google, how old is the president?
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+old+is+the+president
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https://i.stack.imgur.com/sgAN8.png Displays a snippet suggesting Barack Obama is 56 years old.
When I search from the USA, it displays a card informing me that Barack Obama is 56 years old.
Barack Obama / Age
56 years
August 4, 1961
> age 700420517000000000056 years
Hmmm.... I don’t believe President Obama is older than the universe. YMMV!
Hmmm.... I don’t believe President Obama is older than the universe. YMMV!
I'm not getting any meaningful answer: https://imgur.com/a/HL29A
I think Google is a little the victim of it's own success. They are never going to be as perfect as we expect on these answers
"how old is the US president" gives the correct answer. Most other inputs don't try to return an exact value.
Lies we tell ourselves to get to sleep at night.
What's the point?
I believe your question is "it shows Obama, so what?", is that right?
That Google hasn't automated the process of inferring that the question was about the current president.
This generalizes to pretty much any official position.
This generalizes to pretty much any official position.
During the last UK election they got 3 out of the 4 main party leaders wrong for searches about "general election 2017"
The first result on the page for me is:
List of Presidents of the United States by age - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unit... This is a list of presidents of the United States by age. The first table charts the age of each ... 55 years and 6 months, which is about how old Benjamin Harrison was at the time of his inauguration. ... The youngest living president is Barack Obama, born August 4, 1961 (age 700420517000000000056 years, 63 days).