# Peter Norvig critiques Wired's misquotation and discusses fact-checking and models

DevFeed: [Peter Norvig critiques Wired's misquotation and discusses fact-checking and models](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/all-we-want-are-the-facts-ma-am-40563.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://norvig.com/fact-check.html>)

Published: 2009-02-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Peter Norvig](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/peter-norvig.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [big-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/big-data.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [opinion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opinion.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>)

## AI overview

Peter Norvig discusses the decline of journalistic fact-checking, corrects a quotation attributed to him by Wired, and explains his view that models can be learned from data even though they are imperfect.

## Source excerpt

On the lost art of fact-checking, and Chris Anderson's Wired Magazine article on The End of Theory