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See Jandrić (2019) for a detailed explanation of data bias and AI bias.
In Douglas Adams' (1979) science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, human beings create the supercomputer Deep Thought with the sole purpose to answer the ‘Great Question’ of ‘Life, the Universe and Everything.’ The computer takes 7.5 million years to calculate the answer and responds: forty-two. The answer is absurdly simple and not very helpful as no one knows the question it refers to. Deep Thought is unable to provide the question. It proposes the building of another computer that may be able to do so, and only in the distant future. The new computer is planet Earth. In popular culture, the number forty-two has become a classical reference that mocks attempts at answering complex questions in simple ways, and for a human need to understand things beyond our own comprehension.
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