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Question: "Where have all the flowers gone?" Wolfram Answer: "Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hicker

by ins0 11y ago

Question: "Where have all the flowers gone?" Wolfram Answer: "Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson) Acuman Answer: "I'm not really good with locations, so I don't know exactly where have all the flowers gone, but it seems to be Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson)." Hmm...so closed source, yeah?

habitue 11y ago
Despite it obviously piggy-backing on Wolfram Alpha when it gets confused, I still think the normal responses are pretty good. "Where have all the flowers gone" was most likely added by hand to WA, just like all of the hilarious Siri easter eggs, and is no more impressive in terms of programming. The kid's clearly good, just not as good as an entire company of professional programmers.
jotux 11y ago
Questions: "What is best in life?" Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living." Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
- ins0 11y ago
  parsed from thefreedictionary.com - test it with "What is anger in life". Don't get me wrong i'm sure this boy have true skills with 14 years but what i really want to say is "you can only see a persons face" - same goes with software. this boy gets my full kudo if the source is public and sneaky copyscape text without a back ref to the source isn't nice at all.
- MrDosu 11y ago
  this settles it!
- sanoli 11y ago
  To those who don't know, Wolfram's response is what Conan said when he was asked that question (Conan the barbarian, not the comedian, although now that I think about it, I can see Conan O'Brien giving someone that same answer in jest).
seanlevan 11y ago
I don't get what's new about any of this. I disclosed in this thread in other answers already the APIs I use, I have yet to know any "intelligent" piece of artificial intelligence software that is not dependent whatsoever on external APIs. (Read: Siri, which is much more dependent on the WolframAlpha API then mine is). To me, it wouldn't be intelligent not to straddle the large resources of data available. What you posted to, also, was hardcoded in WolframAlpha's system, which is not impressive. Furthermore, try using WolframAlpha for conversation, and prepare to be disappointed. There's a lot of parsing going on in the backend on my system to make it work.
- jeffhuys 11y ago
  You're asking whats your name? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's I don't know, but I can offer data about many names; maybe even your name if you tell me what it is.. On a side note, you told me earlier something about yourself, that ' my name is jeff'. I thought it might be relevant to your question. Great bot

by ins0 11y ago

habitue 11y ago

Despite it obviously piggy-backing on Wolfram Alpha when it gets confused, I still think the normal responses are pretty good. "Where have all the flowers gone" was most likely added by hand to WA, just like all of the hilarious Siri easter eggs, and is no more impressive in terms of programming. The kid's clearly good, just not as good as an entire company of professional programmers.

jotux 11y ago

Questions: "What is best in life?" Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living." Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."

ins0 11y ago
parsed from thefreedictionary.com - test it with "What is anger in life". Don't get me wrong i'm sure this boy have true skills with 14 years but what i really want to say is "you can only see a persons face" - same goes with software. this boy gets my full kudo if the source is public and sneaky copyscape text without a back ref to the source isn't nice at all.
MrDosu 11y ago
this settles it!
sanoli 11y ago
To those who don't know, Wolfram's response is what Conan said when he was asked that question (Conan the barbarian, not the comedian, although now that I think about it, I can see Conan O'Brien giving someone that same answer in jest).

seanlevan 11y ago

I don't get what's new about any of this. I disclosed in this thread in other answers already the APIs I use, I have yet to know any "intelligent" piece of artificial intelligence software that is not dependent whatsoever on external APIs. (Read: Siri, which is much more dependent on the WolframAlpha API then mine is). To me, it wouldn't be intelligent not to straddle the large resources of data available. What you posted to, also, was hardcoded in WolframAlpha's system, which is not impressive. Furthermore, try using WolframAlpha for conversation, and prepare to be disappointed. There's a lot of parsing going on in the backend on my system to make it work.

jeffhuys 11y ago
You're asking whats your name? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's I don't know, but I can offer data about many names; maybe even your name if you tell me what it is.. On a side note, you told me earlier something about yourself, that ' my name is jeff'. I thought it might be relevant to your question. Great bot