[Wolfram Blog]Wolfram|Alpha is coming!

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MCBrown.CA

Discussion Starter · Mar 12, 2009

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"Mathematica has been a great success in very broadly handling all kinds of formal technical systems and knowledge.

But what about everything else? What about all other systematic knowledge? All the methods and models, and data, that exists?

Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they'd quickly be able to handle all these kinds of things.

And that one would be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer.

But it didn't work out that way. Computers have been able to do many remarkable and unexpected things. But not that.

I'd always thought, though, that eventually it should be possible. And a few years ago, I realized that I was finally in a position to try to do it."

Search engine, nah, how about a computational knowledge engine?

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IEATFISH

· #2 · Mar 12, 2009

Wait, what? This could be interesting.

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GANDALFtheGREY

· #3 · Mar 12, 2009

just read the article and if this works out like they want it to this could be a fascinating new technology, rep+ for the find

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RAFFY

· #4 · Mar 12, 2009

damn this thing is like a 8 ball that might actually give the correct answer!

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MCBrown.CA

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 12, 2009

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Originally Posted by RAFFY

damn this thing is like a 8 ball that might actually give the correct answer!

Basically, yes.

Instead of searching for text in web pages then listing the relevant sites, Wolfram|Alpha will attempt to intelligently 'read' web content and create a response to the question that is asked.

It is mentioned in the article that the system hopefully will be text-to-speech capable, so might eventually be able to actually answer the question.

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Aden Florian

· #6 · Mar 12, 2009

Multivac?

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