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A Sneak Preview of Wolfram Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine
- streblo 17y agoIs this really going to be that amazing, or is Stephen Wolfram just flapping his gums?
- TJensen 17y agoI hope it isn't as game changing as the Segway was...
- colins_pride 17y agoIt is a New Kind of Search until proven otherwise ..
- alain94040 17y agoWhat they are promising to achieve is simply impossible to do. It assumes you could do logical and mathematical inferrence at the level of a Ph.D student... ... oh wait. I'm actually the one who wrote a review of Mathematica for MacWorld 15 years ago and said that it can reason to a level as good as a Ph.D student. My opinion: there is about one person on earth who can pull this off, and this is the team. So I have great expectations.
- buggy_code 17y agoI would argue that the hard problem is not "reasoning" (taking absolute truths and deriving other truths); but rather dealing with noise. The former problem -- logic -- ended up giving us the AI winter, and it's the later (with machine learning) that is driving Google and modern robotics. If this is just Mathematica + Prolog + A giant hand tuned database, I think it'll be a disappointment. (Look at the Cyc project -- led by a former Stanford professor, lots of funding, supposed to revolutionize human knowledge -- where is it now?)