Why is A.I. So Dumb?

OUR MACHINE OVERLORDS ARE SO THICK THEY THINK BILL MURRAY WAS IN SUPERBAD

Remember that scene in Superbad where Bill Murray helps Jonah Hill buy a case of beer? Or the scene
where McLovin and Bill Murray crash a keg party and try to get laid? No? Neither do I, because Bill Murray wasn’t in Superbad.

Or was he? According to Google’s state-of-the-art A.I. Overview feature, he was. I know this because a few weeks ago, as I browsed my increasingly junk-filled news feed, my eye was caught by a clickbait headline that said something like Here’s the Reason Why Bill Murray Has Never Worked With Judd Apatow. This headline made me curious. Not curious enough to swallow the clickbait, but curious enough to do a quick Google search on the terms “Judd Apatow” and “Bill Murray.” Here’s how Google’s A.I. answered my query ...

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