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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by lkrubner on Thursday November 10, 2016 @08:20PM (#12926515)
How would AI resolve religious issues?

The Jews say they are waiting for the Messiah.

The Christians say the Messiah came once and will come again.

The Muslims say there is only one God and Muhammad is his Prophet.

Which of these groups is correct?

I would love to see the AI algorithm that can finally settle this issue! Seriously, mad props to the programmer who writes that code!

Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by kisil_reboot on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:33PM (#12926963)
Fortunately, you don't really have to solve that problem. It would be sufficient to assess claims of actual fact about the actual world. I think the first step in writing the classifier would be to write something like

    float IsStatementAboutFacts(string statement);  // Returns confidence estimate
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by lkrubner on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:01AM (#12928350)
Your statement is that of an atheist. You don't seem to realize that many of the followers of these religions believe their assertions to be factual in every way. When I got off the subway today, at the Port Authority, in New York City, there were 2 women, holding up signs about Jesus. One of the signs literally said "Historical fact: Jesus rose from the dead".
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by drumdance on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:13AM (#12928412)
To me that's less of an issue than a statement like "if Trump is elected Jesus will return."
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by qb45 on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:16AM (#12928889)
This statement is true because Jesus promised to return regardless of election results :)
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by EdHominem on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:21PM (#12933964)
Right, they have a few historical claims. But none of them have any proof for those claims and their confidence is off the charts.

Some of their statements pass the first filter, far fewer pass the second.