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Is this really going to be that amazing, or is Stephen Wolfram just flapping his gums?
by streblo 17y ago
Is 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?)