Stephen Wolfram Speaks About His New Question Answering Engine

http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/08/stephen-wolfram-speaks-about-his-new-question-answering-engine/

by kkleiner • 17 years ago

17 3 17 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=549398

ableal• 17 years ago

That link is worth expanding (Rudy Rucker interview, also quoted source of singularityhub piece): http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-search...

And in that page, the tail 'Resource' links include this: http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.htm...

which is the Jorge Luis Borges essay with the amusing mention of a system of animal classification: "(a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame ..."

Borges lucidly nails the Achilles' heel - the definition of the database scheme. I stand by my less insightful comment of three weeks ago - care and feeding of 'fact databases' is hard (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520281)

TweedHeads• 17 years ago

I know Wolfram Alpha is going to be great, no doubt about the genius behind it. But the first time I heard of it, it was presented as a google killer which gave it a bad reputation as overhyped and cuil-like image.

I like their new image. They do one thing and they do it like nobody else before.

Kudos to Stephen Wolfram and his team.

Stephen Wolfram Speaks About His New Question Answering Engine

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