the ethos of internet

at least it’s an ethos

This viddie is a rather boring demonstration of Wolfram Alpha. It does basically what it has claimed to be able to do: it can process data in a variety of domains, answer queries in natural language that pertain to the data, and present answers and other relevant or [...]

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From Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big.

There is no risk of Wolfram Alpha becoming too smart, or taking over the world. It’s good at answering factual questions; it’s a computing machine, a tool — not a mind.

I predict that this will [...]