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| chuck.riley3 at (no spam) gmail.com... |
 Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:41 pm |
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| zzbunker at (no spam) netscape.net... |
| Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:04 pm |
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On Apr 30, 9:41 am, "chuck.ril... at (no spam) gmail.com" <chuck.ril... at (no spam) gmail.com>
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Quote: Wolfram Research, most well known as the creators of Mathematica, have
been busy working on a next generation search product some say has the
potential to be a game changer. Others may say that drawing that
conclusion is a bit premature, but the Wolfram Alpha does show
promise.
Well, since most current search engines have an Oprah front end
driver,
the people with actual non-zero futures use YML, Which is XML
minus the Webcam.
> http://www.syntheticthought.com/st/artificial-intelligence/39-the-int... |
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| Shiyou Wang... |
| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 5:15 am |
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chuck.riley3 at (no spam) gmail.com wrote:
Quote: Wolfram Research, most well known as the creators of Mathematica, have
been busy working on a next generation search product some say has the
potential to be a game changer. Others may say that drawing that
conclusion is a bit premature, but the Wolfram Alpha does show
promise.
http://www.syntheticthought.com/st/artificial-intelligence/39-the-
internet/98-wolfram-alpha-real-deal
Maybe it will be a complement of Google, and then Google will make a
better one. |
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| rick++... |
| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:16 pm |
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"ask jeeves" was suppose to be a natural language inquiry engine too.
No one is even close to the quantity of storage google has - exabytes
now.
But usually just want to find a couple key pages in that morass. |
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| Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 11:59 am |
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According to an article I read this will not be the same kind of
search engine as Google, etc., but will instead have massive databases
which can be queried. For example, you can ask something like "how
many Ukrainians have red hair and drive motorcycles?" and it will look
for the answer. |
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| Walter Banks... |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:16 pm |
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I did some playing with it on the weekend. It becomes very clear that
it is harder to data base facts than it is to index them. One of the first
quireies that I entered was a question about and aspect of IEEE 754
floating point math standard. It wasn't able to identify the standard.
Regards,
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Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited
1 (519) 888-6911
http://www.bytecraft.com
walter at (no spam) bytecraft.com
cig at (no spam) cafeperal.eu wrote:
Quote: According to an article I read this will not be the same kind of
search engine as Google, etc., but will instead have massive databases
which can be queried. For example, you can ask something like "how
many Ukrainians have red hair and drive motorcycles?" and it will look
for the answer. |
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| Phil Sherrod... |
| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:15 am |
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On 19-May-2009, Walter Banks <walter at (no spam) bytecraft.com> wrote:
Quote: I did some playing with it on the weekend. It becomes very clear that
it is harder to data base facts than it is to index them. One of the first
quireies that I entered was a question about and aspect of IEEE 754
floating point math standard. It wasn't able to identify the standard.
I tried 8 straightforward queries. It said it was unable to understand 6 of them. I'm not
impressed.
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Phil Sherrod
(PhilSherrod 'at' comcast.net)
http://www.dtreg.com (Decision trees, Neural networks, SVM)
http://www.nlreg.com (Nonlinear Regression) |
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| Walter Banks... |
| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:30 pm |
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Phil Sherrod wrote:
Quote: On 19-May-2009, Walter Banks <walter at (no spam) bytecraft.com> wrote:
I did some playing with it on the weekend. It becomes very clear that
it is harder to data base facts than it is to index them. One of the first
quireies that I entered was a question about and aspect of IEEE 754
floating point math standard. It wasn't able to identify the standard.
I tried 8 straightforward queries. It said it was unable to understand 6 of them. I'm not
impressed.
It has a way to go. It can deal for example with the generic floating point
questions but doesn't have the knowledge to deal with the reality of a
number systems limits implemented with a specific standard.
It provides a clearer more reliable result that many of the entries in
Wikipedia but this is clearly an alpha product at this point.
Regards,
--
Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited
1 (519) 888-6911
http://www.bytecraft.com
walter at (no spam) bytecraft.com |
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| Phil Sherrod... |
| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 3:29 am |
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On 20-May-2009, Walter Banks <walter at (no spam) bytecraft.com> wrote:
Quote: I tried 8 straightforward queries. It said it was unable to understand 6 of them. I'm not
impressed.
It has a way to go. It can deal for example with the generic floating point
questions but doesn't have the knowledge to deal with the reality of a
number systems limits implemented with a specific standard.
It provides a clearer more reliable result that many of the entries in
Wikipedia but this is clearly an alpha product at this point.
It cannot handle:
Who is president of the United States of America
Who is the governor of Tennessee
How many states are in the USA
How many stars are on the USA flag
What is the largest state in the USA
What is Usenet
How many books are in the Bible
What is the most populous country
What do you wear on your feet
How many ships are in the USA Navy
Who wrote As Time Goes By
When was the movie Wizard of Oz made
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Phil Sherrod
(PhilSherrod 'at' comcast.net)
http://www.dtreg.com (Decision trees, Neural networks, SVM)
http://www.nlreg.com (Nonlinear Regression) |
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