Author Topic: Wolfram Alpha (Read 8812 times)

impactor · « **on:** May 19, 2009, 12:41:05 AM »

I tried asking it some questions about the Amiga and all it responds with is:

"Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."

It's shite.

impactor · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2009, 12:50:20 AM »

Quote from: GadgetMaster;454996

LOL

I'd laugh if it's just a guy on the other end trying to annoy us. Not really a search engine at all.

Behold... Mr Wolfram.

impactor · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2009, 12:52:06 AM »

Quote from: Karlos;454997

Nope, it's just that Amiga trivia by and large isn't "computable" knowledge, is it? You can't blame it for not returning any meaningful results as a consequence of your misunderstanding how it works.

Try asking it something like "how big is antarctica?" or "how far away is saturn today?" and see what you get.

As I said I tried asking it some questions about the Amiga, such as "what is an amiga computer?" and it can't even provide any response.

impactor · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2009, 01:00:13 AM »

Quote from: Karlos;455000

Again, that isn't computable knowledge, that's just indexable data, which is what Google specialises in.

Never mind. In a few months it might actually have learned enough to tell you

I guess the thing is that Wolfram Alpha is a totally different concept and when I read on the BBC website such bold statements that it's possibly going to be a challenge to Google then I was expecting much more straight away... as you say perhaps it will indeed grow to become something much more