> On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I guess many of us quality for british parliament.
Funnily enough, with the most recent models (having reduced sycophancy), putting in the wrong assumptions often still leads to the right output.