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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 work rather poorly, but enough to generate interest and to be appealed to a moderate amount of the time. And it will be followed by competitors that do the same thing, only much worse. And then, out of nowhere, using some closely guarded proprietary methods, some tech company will knock this out of the park with the “It just works” feature from day one.

And it will be the dawning of a new age.