Google's latest feature: the Counterexemplifier
Trawling rather carelessly for images to use as a backdrop to some
slides on induction for a
class I'm
(co-)teaching, Google gave me more than I bargained for. It now has
a built-in Counterexemplifier, which will eventually eliminate the need
for scientists to perform tiresome and expensive fieldwork or
laboratory testing to evaluate their theories, just as it has already
eliminated the need for teachers to read books in order to prepare for
class (or for students to attend those classes).
Try
"All
swans are white" to see the Google Counterexemplifier in action.
What will those clever folks at Google think of next?
Nota bene: The Counterexemplifier
must be a beta release: see "Swans are white" or even "All swans are black".
Posted by David Beaver at April 3, 2004 12:16 AM