Posted on 12/03/2009 8:25:18 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
Making the World's Knowledge Computable
Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing...
(Excerpt) Read more at wolframalpha.com ...
For a good laugh ask it “The meaning of Life”
You beat me to it! I just tried that before seeing your response.
Wow. I never knew that Chester Arthur was sworn in as president on my birthday.
That’s weird. I just checked that out, and noticed that the answers are displayed as an image, instead of some type of html/xml, etc.
I wonder why/how they do that?
>> I wonder why/how they do that?
To protect their technnology from parasites, maybe?
DOING it is relatively straighforward. Just render an image on the fly in the server.
Who can forget the ambition and (heh heh) commercial success of MIT/Doug Lenat's Cyc?
That one got underway in 1984.
I just asked it to compare apples and oranges and it did a pretty good job.
If that is a metaphor for the demise of islam in my lifetime, I'll take it!
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