WORLDTECHGoogle AI Mode sidesteps a simple question: who won the 2020 election
What happened
If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden's win that November. Google's AI approach to election queries highlights the tension between reducing misinformation and providing straightforward information. Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View.
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US. Asking about 2012 election resulted in a link to The American Presidency Project's 2012 Data Center rather than a direct answer.
But AI Mode seemed perfectly willing to give me a detailed and correct responses for the winner of every other presidential election going back to 2000. Market cap and trailing P/E use this close with the SEC share total and trailing diluted earnings, each dated next to its figure.
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