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phd1658
06-23-2010, 08:33 AM
I generally don't pass around web sites, but this is one of the most amazing things I have seen yet. I am sure that it will take a while for things like this to really get established, but in my opinion, this represents a true benchmark in the "Information Age". I hope you are as impressed as I am.

Watch the intro first: www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html (http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html)


Then save the site in Favorites:
www.wolframalpha.com/ (http://www.wolframalpha.com/)

Bill Munroe
dlcw
06-23-2010, 11:00 AM
WOW!!!

That's an impressive demo. I will bookmark this website and look at it once and a while to see how it is growing and expanding.

Bill, how did you find this site?
gene
06-23-2010, 11:04 AM
One step closer to artificial intelligents . I tried a question " what makes women do the things they do" it said " I have no idea":)
That is amazing
scottbot
06-23-2010, 11:50 AM
Wow! That is amazing.
I'm sure glad you shared that with us.
I've got it bookmarked and I'm getting the iPhone App as soon as I'm done here. What an amazing tool.
phd1658
06-23-2010, 12:54 PM
Glad you liked it. Don, I found it by being friends with a bunch of engineer geeks! I say that with tongue in cheek. I graduated from Georgia Tech and still maintain close relations with a lot of the guys. One of them sent me the link.
blackhawk
06-23-2010, 01:55 PM
Pretty cool, but it didn't know what a Shopbot is:(
myxpykalix
06-23-2010, 02:22 PM
It looks like a databank that can process info based on I guess data that it has access to. I don't think it is artificial intelligence that figures these questions out but is smart enough to know where to go to get that info and disseminate it in many different ways. Smarter then me and we think of this like people used to think of the adding machine when it was invented...just another way for some machine to do the thinking for you.
Very cool....
butch
06-23-2010, 06:17 PM
That is an amazing site. Thks
John David
06-23-2010, 07:11 PM
Thanks for the site it's awesome.
Anybody could have fun here for quit a while
benchmench
06-25-2010, 11:47 AM
Along the same topic, here is an interesting talk/demo by John Underkoffler ("Minority Report") about human/computer interfaces in 3D space. It has some interesting possibilities for designing 3D objects.

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_with_a_gesture.htm l