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Web tool 'as important as Google'
- edw519 17y ago"The "computational knowledge engine", as the technology is known, will be available to the public from the middle of May this year." Is "the middle of May" the result of a computation? If so, then a more precise model may take until "the middle of June".
- tokenadult 17y agoThe proof of this pudding is in the eating. We'll all be testing it out with questions and seeing if we are satisfied with the results.
- verdant 17y agoIts kind of disappointing that they aren't trying to parse natural language. I know that would make it a ton more complex (and possibly beyond our capacity to do), but to me that would be truly the next generation from our current flavor of search engines. If I could truly ask a question and have the computer understand what I'm talking about to return an answer, rather than just trying to match keywords. That's Wolfram's goal, I think, but I don't know if they can really get there without parsing human language.
- noaharc 17y agoThey do parse natural language. In fact, that was one of the biggest problems they had to overcome, and is the main reason they currently have no plans for creating different versions for other languages. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wolframalpha_our_first_impressions.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wolframalpha_our_first_...
- gamache 17y agoStephen Wolfram 'as self-important as all get-out'. Wolf has been cried; A New Kind of Science left little doubt that "expert opinions" of Wolfram's work are worth a piss-hole in the snow.
- marcusbooster 17y agoWolfram is a salesman first and foremost. I'll believe it when I see it.