![]() I haven't read anything that thoroughly immodest and improbable since suffering through the opening pages of Dianetics. Wolfram can fairly claim to have revolutionized the math software niche with the 1988 launch of Mathematica. there is no risk of Wolfram Alpha becoming too smart, or taking over the world.īut Jon "Hannibal" Stokes cannibalizes the news: For example, it contains formal models of much of what we know about science - massive amounts of data about various physical laws and properties, as well as data about the physical world. It uses built-in models of fields of knowledge, complete with data and algorithms, that represent real-world knowledge. doesn't simply contain huge amounts of manually entered pairs of questions and answers. Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions - like questions that have factual answers such as "What is the location of Timbuktu?". In a nutshell, Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a "computational knowledge engine" for the Web. has created a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, containing terabytes of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms to represent real-world knowledge as we know it. Nor does it resort to natural language to return documents, like Powerset does. The engine doesnt return documents that might contain the answer, like Google does, and it isnt a giant database, like Wikipedia. You ask it factual questions (such as How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?), and it computes answers for you. has taken years of working in stealth and involves more than a hundred workers. apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google.
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