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Wolfram Alpha, yet another pretender to Google’s throne.

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May 26, 2009

As it kept coming up empty, Wolfram Alpha came to seem less like HAL 9000 and more like a chatbot. It’s been trained to respond to some kinds of queries, but any variations leave it stammering. It’s an idiot savant, smart about a few things but profoundly ignorant about large swaths of human knowledge.

via Wolfram Alpha, yet another pretender to Google’s throne. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine.

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