That's amazing. Nearly every fact presented there is completely wrong.

Plus, the picture is a standing liberty quarter that is nearly 90 years old and pretty much completely out of general circulation.

Could you specifically address his concerns for those not in-the-know about ML?

Sorry, my comment was ambiguous -- I was referring to the Google result. Thanks for pointing it out. The commenter that I was responding to made a great point that I agree with and was highlighting as a particularly good example of ML gone awry in the wild.

Other than the subjective statement that quarters are "useful", every fact in the google response is wrong.

Quarters are:

- Worth $0.25 (not $0.50)

- Not the largest. (Dollar coins and half-dollars are larger)

- Made of a blend of copper and nickel. (No silver content for circulating coins)

The picture depicts a standing liberty quarter that is no longer a circulating coin.

It's amazing that Google would put that in production.

I believe "Nearly every fact presented there is completely wrong" was referring to Google's snippet in the screenshot, not my comment.

I thought this screenshot may have been from an early and outdated rollout of the Rich Snippets, but no, I just searched and Google still says a quarter is worth 50 cents.

Easily explained as an artifact of just how accurate Google's ML systems really are.

What you're seeing is a hyper-accurate snapshot of the exchange rate between "a shave and a hair cut" and "two bits"[1]. Typically you hear about the value over a much longer period of time and the average value of "a U.S. Quarter Dollar" == $0.25.

/snark ;)

[1] "Two bits" -- Noun. Slang term used predominantly by Neo-Victorian communities living in California's Bay Area megalopolis.

Edit: Fixin' of the grammar

That information is so bad for such an easy question, I can only wonder if google is more interested in using their userbase as a training ground than actually providing a useful service.

It's not an outlier either. I can find about 1 obviously bad answer a minute just randomly typing fact type questions that pop into my head.