Is the cameraman stoned, or just stupid? Hello, show us the projection! We don't need a zoom in of Mr. Wolfram's face to understand what he is saying.
Well, in my opinion, looking at their history , for thousand years they didn't have a country to leave, they were expelled from their homes, cities and countries they lived. For years they were basically surviving. That has made them to work very hard and to work closer with people. All the best doctors, lawyer and etc are Jews. That's my opinion. They are just genetically brilliant.
This "computational knowledge engine" is definitely the future of obtaining knowledge on the internet. And the best thing about it is that It can only get better as the years go by.
I've been playing with this a few days and it is a great program. The thing I notice though is that it is not all that intuitve yet. . Something as simple as plotting a line from two points is very sensitive to how the data is entered. Entering (3,4) (5,7) or "points (3,4) (5,7)" will not get you a graph. Neither will the words "graph" or "plot" before the coordinate pairs. Typing "line" before the points will give you what you want though. I think a good manual would solve this.
@rich2rock Because once you get away from math, things are not black and white. Take killing. We say it is OK to kill in self-defense, but already you see self-defense is a judgement call. You can't run a red light, but cops and ambulences do it all the time, and if you did it to get your wife to the hospital in an emergency, I bet a cop seeing this wouldn't give you a ticket either. That's why we need good judges. Computers can't handle judgement because the variables are too complex.
This computational "engine" is the kind of algorithm that would enable the masses of humans to function optimally. Good, accurate, & relevant knowledge dissemination & consumption inevitably become knowledge creation itself among the users. Spending days memorizing volumes of medical facts, math formulas, historical events and names, etc. can be impressive; but that's no way to live and to function, when knowledge --- both specific and general --- grows at the rate it's been growing.
'Tis the next logical step in the evolution of humanity knowledge. At the beginning, learning to read and write simple sentences and then adding, multiplying, or dividing 2 by 4 were very important. A bit later, learning to do multi-variable calculus was important ... And later still ... things, ideas, processes, & general/specific knowledge have grown exponentially. That's too much, for any one to learn or to retain in the normal way...
My comment was truncated. (Ah paragraphing is not allowed.) My comments on the camera man stand. Let me try to add what was omitted. Watching Wolfram's head for 1hour and 45 minutes is extremely dull; we need to see the input, the syntax. The camera guy must be on the take from Google.
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"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, and a well-known scientist. He is widely regarded as the most important innovator in technical computing today, as well as one of the world's most original research scientists."
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stephen is right...he is building a system for finding the answer of all. during this...many idiots believe in a god...it's a answer of time...we will all see it
oh...i meaned the "new kind of science", not the alpha wolfram....alpha wolfram isn't perfect ! but to decode the development of the universe is his area ! i don't think that there is a god....i'm with stephen's opiniion, the universe is a big calculate program and we and what we see are evolutions of it. we can show this process in a formula.
Nonsense, all it can do is play with numbers, don't ask it who the wife is of Tom Cruise, what a sunflower is, what it has to say about the CNN newsstation or more info about Clint Eatswood than just his birthdate/place...sigh
I need to add my own data to augment its own and wish he had gone into more detail about how we should organize ours to make it compatible.
I'm trying to find a way to map a small town's local economy. This looks like a great way to organize all that data so that his engine can help us explore it.
Right now I agree it appears quite challenged semantically speaking. But I expect that to change rapidly. There is a great deal more information available than merely the numeric, it's just not all that clear how to reference it unambiguously with natural language to yield a useful tool. I'm hoping they take us the challenge of integrating all of the economic data generated by government agencies into a form that will help us become a wiser electorate.
Seriously, how more semantically correct can a person be who types: sunflower?
I have tons of examples like that.
What I get annoyed about is that the guy made claims that turned out to be nothing but bull. He said he had found a way to turn language into numbers and "calculate results". What he failed to tell us is that it's mainly numbers related. Most people however search for things that are not related to numbers.
sunflower worked fine for me. (came up with a lot of info about the plant, and offered to tell me about the word instead.)
I disagree that its limited. The site is filled with examples of stuff that does work. I have Mathematica, which has access to a lot of the same data, or I'd use WolframAlpha a lot more.
"sunflower worked fine for me. (came up with a lot of info about the plant"
You're such a liar, it's isn't even funny anymore. All it comes up with are Latin names, it's nowhere near to what a site like Wikipedia provides.
"I disagree that its limited. "
You're such a liar...geesh. All the examples are all related to data. Type any famous name and all you get is a birth date/place and profession. Type in any plant or animal....again, very limited.
I type in the name of my own site, can't be found, even if it's ranked #1 with many search arguments in any major seach engine. I type in "Marco Borsato", the best selling artist in the Netherlands and I get a comparison between the place "Marco" in Brasil and "Borsad" (even different spelling) in India, when I put the full name between quotes.
I type the same in Google and you get 890,000 pages!
"The site is filled with examples of stuff that does work"
That only proves that THOSE samples work, it's a marketing strategy, don't you get it? Have you seen how many people and hardware they need for this? They're not going to do this all for free without getting any return. All the examples are pre-frabricated and are all based on science and numbers. Don't ask more about Abraham Lincoln,because all you get is that he was president and his birth date/place.... how useful...sigh
I'm really not trying to mislead you or misrepresent the site. I think you're expecting an encyclopedic source, like Wikipedia, while I'm expecting something a lot more structured--where the information returned just places you at a specific place in an abstract "idea space" encompassing all of human knowledge.
But you do make a great suggestion--That they should incorporate links to other well known information sources of different types whenever the "node" requested has an entry there.
"I think you're expecting an encyclopedic source, like Wikipedia"
No, I'm not, I've been reading his blog and watched related videos for months now. He gave the impression that he managed to compute with language, he never said that it was basically limited to numbers.
I agree, it's great for people who need those numbers, but how many realy do, he pretended it to be more than it really is and that annoys me.
I'm disappointed with the limitations as well, but it is a first stab at an enormously difficult problem and it is likely to evolve rapidly--the way mathematica did, to encompass more and more of what you and I expect.
I'm probably unrealistically excited about the prospects for it, but do think they're likely to incorporate useful ideas, like linking entries more usefully to other sites. I also think we're not getting to see the full extent of it due to legal limits on their use of the data.
As a free information source online I rate this as about a 7 with wikipedia and google being examples of 10s.
As a new approach to organizing the world's information I rate it as high as the web itself. It appears to be a fundamental extension to the idea of uniform resource identifiers and a means of connecting together all parts of the semantic web and various private databases.
What made the web wasn't so much Tim's software but what people did with it. We'll have to wait to find out.
It's a bit silly to go and compare this to Skynet. The system appears to have two deficiencies that prevent it from becoming a Skynet-esque AI: it does not engage in self-directed learning, and it has no curiosity.
Were that to be the case, it would have to be able to identify weak areas in its knowledge base, prioritize those weak spots, carry out some form of self-directed search for information, and translate that into the format necessary to integrate with the rest of the knowledge base
what's the difference between the gdp of france and italy,
17$ per hour times 365 days,
number of stars in the universe / the number of cells in the human body
the distance between uranus and jupiter / the distance between the sun and the moon, this one won't return anything even though each of the two elements of the question can be answered individually.
Having a function/syntax to get names of items in a category of objects would be nice. ex: names of constellations, names of cities in
Knowledge management equals learning??? Learning is acquiring knowledge and knowledge management is analysis. Actually by knowledge management here you probably mean partiality. I think Wolfram|Alpha will be actually searching a data base or Website rather than the Internet.
The beauty of the Internet is on its impartiality, and that information is never taken for granted. When it comes out my first inquire will be on global warming and see how factual the "information managers" are.
Incredible. Are there many academic institutions in US academia-land? Where's the focal point for academics when it comes to studying the internet and all its parts? Berkman Center is stunning. Good help. Thanks
Man, that host is annoying....cracking jokes, answering for the speaker, constantly interrupting. Dude, it's not about you. Just introduce the speaker then sit down and be quiet.
He's clumsy with his hands. He might be one of the smartest people in the world, got a PhD at 20 and wrote a paper on particle physics at the age of 14.
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His assistant says "93 internet users in the Vatican City, they must be doing other things" you could literally see his mind wander onto that idea for a second, then he's straight back onto the issue at hand.
google is an index of contents available on the web. it gives us raw data while wolframalpha purports to give us cooked knowledge.
while google will always give us materials to be cooked, sometime it requires time consuming efforts to collect, sort and process them. on the other hand, cooked results are not always the ones we wanted.
Jeez...can't some of you folks just listen to words? Does EVERYTHING have to be visual? Maybe they didn't want to show the program until release anyway.
in my belief, internet will evolve into an integral organ of modern humans. once we found ways to brain-like computation engine with simultaneous processing and parallel activation of data stored in memory, and a way to interpret brain activities into textual chunks, then we will be able to extend our brain capacity and processing speed.
we all be jeopardy champions. i am not sure we will be einstens, but certainly it will help most of us in understanding quantum electrodynamics.
Perhaps after the launch they'll post another video with all the screenshots. I'd watch it again - I'd already listened to this on mp3. Can't wait for the launch, I've had it bookmarked for weeks. ;-J
That looked like it had the potential to be an amazing talk and webcast.... if only they could get a cameraman that doesn't suck ass. I can't stand to watch this.
LOL... you guys are discussing the bloody cameraman and the quality of images... erm try listening to what he says... it's an incredible sounding tool. Unlike Google and search engines where you (the user) has to point and shoot at optimized search results... you get the answer... flames. I wonder what the Wolfram Engine will say about "Google" 5 stars.
It's amusing that you note this and get a thumbs down. It's true. They have no business presentation skills. Either that or they are deliberately trying to position themselves as academics. It's sad that they don't try harder to present it better. It does look brilliant however.
He got lots of thumbs down I suspect because it looks nothing like a fancy google. It's not a search engine. It almost needs to have this on the first page of the website I suspect.
Every not technical person that I've discussed this with says "It sounds like Ask Jeeves, you remember Ask Jeeves?".
Looks great. I can't wait for it to be released. I just wonder how they'll monetarize the site or if that's their intention? I should imagine that the computation requires some fast computers.
That's exactly what the title tell us: Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha. Sadly the cameraman aparently was not able to properly show the screen behind Stephen once and gave up trying to do it the rest of presentation...
Otherwise we could be able to see something working.
It's not competition for google. From what I've seen it looks like a statistical number cruncher. Looks like a lot of high level maths with real data already entered into it for you.
Will have to wait and see what exactly it can and can't do. I don't think it searches web-pages though.
Smart guy with a seemingly valuable technology. But, who wants to watch someone talking for almost 2 hours with no visual references? Lame presentation. Guess we will just need to wait for the real thing.
There's a separate video linked in this one where they show some (admittedly fuzzy) views of W|A output for several minutes. Maybe Wolfram compromised?
Ahh Wolfram|Alpha, solving math homeworks in the blink of an eye since 2009. :)
MetallicAddict15 1 month ago
Don't get me wrong though. It really cool, I just don't feel like watching this cuz it's an hour long
hay330hay 1 month ago
I like the fact that I don't have time to even watch thing
hay330hay 1 month ago
nice video! thanks for uploading!
adelle0001 2 months ago
wow! great video!
thebigfootme 2 months ago
This type of tool will only increase the demand for people who are good at making decisions after seeing the data.
guerillachan20 3 months ago
It'll take me forever to solve for those assignments. Thanks wolfram! =)) Totally love it! <3
divinecm 6 months ago
Are we talking about Asimov's Positronic Brain?
batourey 7 months ago
LOL. I like how he is introduced as Unassuming, and his shirt is super wrinkly.
jexterrapanan 8 months ago
Is the cameraman stoned, or just stupid? Hello, show us the projection! We don't need a zoom in of Mr. Wolfram's face to understand what he is saying.
r3vmixman 10 months ago
Wolfram|Alpha is such an amazing tool. I hope that someday it becomes more important than Google.
AssholePatrol 11 months ago
great video.
"imaging radars" +"mathforum" google.com.
jdflksjdlskjf 1 year ago
Cameraman sucks!
Gabgett 1 year ago 2
someone, watch the whole video
youngwaterturtle 1 year ago 3
why are jews so intelligent?
6Diego1Diego9 1 year ago
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Well, in my opinion, looking at their history , for thousand years they didn't have a country to leave, they were expelled from their homes, cities and countries they lived. For years they were basically surviving. That has made them to work very hard and to work closer with people. All the best doctors, lawyer and etc are Jews. That's my opinion. They are just genetically brilliant.
askarbek88 1 year ago
@6Diego1Diego9 stephen is iranian and Bahais
christophelopez1964 1 year ago
@6Diego1Diego9 Because they have money to get educated.
frogmaster3950 11 months ago
i wonder if wolfram alpha will tell me why 19 people disliked this video...
dtek40k 1 year ago 6
@dtek40k for sure he know!!!! too simple
christophelopez1964 1 year ago
Now I can do my Calculus homework without doing any Calculus!
baggedyman 1 year ago
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Mattprole 1 year ago
I really appreciate WolframAlpha; it's like discovering the Internet all over again.
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Mattprole 1 year ago
This "computational knowledge engine" is definitely the future of obtaining knowledge on the internet. And the best thing about it is that It can only get better as the years go by.
CrashingThunder 1 year ago
I've been playing with this a few days and it is a great program. The thing I notice though is that it is not all that intuitve yet. . Something as simple as plotting a line from two points is very sensitive to how the data is entered. Entering (3,4) (5,7) or "points (3,4) (5,7)" will not get you a graph. Neither will the words "graph" or "plot" before the coordinate pairs. Typing "line" before the points will give you what you want though. I think a good manual would solve this.
dkw12002 1 year ago
why can't we do law just like this? Instead of people being able to buy their innocence if they are really guilty.
rich2rock 1 year ago
@rich2rock Because once you get away from math, things are not black and white. Take killing. We say it is OK to kill in self-defense, but already you see self-defense is a judgement call. You can't run a red light, but cops and ambulences do it all the time, and if you did it to get your wife to the hospital in an emergency, I bet a cop seeing this wouldn't give you a ticket either. That's why we need good judges. Computers can't handle judgement because the variables are too complex.
dkw12002 1 year ago 2
@dkw12002 Until computers get more advanced that us and start evolving and become independent and start their own civilization. Futurama. Sorry.
baggedyman 1 year ago
ridiculously awesome
theBA1 1 year ago
2:18 to skip the bullshit
Lxan96dr 1 year ago
WolframAlpha let me get an A in Calculus 2! Thank you very much Wolfram!
KakuKachoO 1 year ago
Why doesn't this guy have a Nobel Prize yet?
KakuKachoO 1 year ago
This computational "engine" is the kind of algorithm that would enable the masses of humans to function optimally. Good, accurate, & relevant knowledge dissemination & consumption inevitably become knowledge creation itself among the users. Spending days memorizing volumes of medical facts, math formulas, historical events and names, etc. can be impressive; but that's no way to live and to function, when knowledge --- both specific and general --- grows at the rate it's been growing.
HenryDavidT 1 year ago
'Tis the next logical step in the evolution of humanity knowledge. At the beginning, learning to read and write simple sentences and then adding, multiplying, or dividing 2 by 4 were very important. A bit later, learning to do multi-variable calculus was important ... And later still ... things, ideas, processes, & general/specific knowledge have grown exponentially. That's too much, for any one to learn or to retain in the normal way...
HenryDavidT 1 year ago
Wolfram|Alpha assumes NASDAQ:ORCL for both SUN and JAVA. Poor Sun Microsystems...
494c6f7665416c6578 1 year ago
Most interesting ! Thanks for posting !
etiennealive 1 year ago
this app for the iphone is beast
Iildimsum7 1 year ago
the point of the video is the input and the result from wolfram alpha.. that the thing we should see... berkmancenter should hire a decent videoman,
neoxavier 1 year ago
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Consciousish 1 year ago
excellent work!
1888junkteam 2 years ago
I wish Obama would ask Wolfram Research to handle implementing his Open Government Directive.
ananiasacts 2 years ago
Wolfram looks like Dr. Octopus.
Jusseppe 2 years ago
Wolfram is Dr.Octopus.
Zubinen 1 year ago 3
this is the first video I've ever seen that's longer than an hour
ECGProductions092 2 years ago
Wolfram|Alpha is simply genius.
DirtyMidgetStudios 2 years ago 33
@DirtyMidgetStudios wolfram si simply a great genius
mosesbenmaimon 6 months ago
@DirtyMidgetStudios More like is simply a faggot.
stalinisnumber1 4 months ago
OMG these ppl are so fucking smart
i dont even understand half of the words he's saying
HumanOFtheWeek3000 2 years ago
just love it at 01:25:31 !!..or what about 01:11:15 just hilarious!! ... anyone??
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lol i got bored 4 minutes into this
HumanOFtheWeek3000 2 years ago
Wolfram published a paper on particle physics at 16 and got his PhD at 20!! What a smart ass!!
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DirtyMidgetStudios 2 years ago
Askification! I love his language
quarkgluonsoup 2 years ago
holy shit this is long
babybinladen123 2 years ago
dude. you're awesome! THANKS FOR WOLFRAM ALPHA!
crazybigyo 2 years ago 4
thanks mister wolfram
reslerson 2 years ago 18
Yes, I agree. JZ is really cute- the camera man should have spent more time on him
Cambridgemphil 2 years ago 4
My comment was truncated. (Ah paragraphing is not allowed.) My comments on the camera man stand. Let me try to add what was omitted. Watching Wolfram's head for 1hour and 45 minutes is extremely dull; we need to see the input, the syntax. The camera guy must be on the take from Google.
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"Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, and a well-known scientist. He is widely regarded as the most important innovator in technical computing today, as well as one of the world's most original research scientists."
AHHAHA.... what a delusional idiot.
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FlyleafGalore 2 years ago
stephen is right...he is building a system for finding the answer of all. during this...many idiots believe in a god...it's a answer of time...we will all see it
Thoko21333 2 years ago
but too bad, the answer are those within the internet. so you can't get the answer who is GOD. Well, you can always try to think out of the box
blastmeister 2 years ago
oh...i meaned the "new kind of science", not the alpha wolfram....alpha wolfram isn't perfect ! but to decode the development of the universe is his area ! i don't think that there is a god....i'm with stephen's opiniion, the universe is a big calculate program and we and what we see are evolutions of it. we can show this process in a formula.
Thoko21333 2 years ago
Nonsense, all it can do is play with numbers, don't ask it who the wife is of Tom Cruise, what a sunflower is, what it has to say about the CNN newsstation or more info about Clint Eatswood than just his birthdate/place...sigh
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yyf147258 2 years ago
I need to add my own data to augment its own and wish he had gone into more detail about how we should organize ours to make it compatible.
I'm trying to find a way to map a small town's local economy. This looks like a great way to organize all that data so that his engine can help us explore it.
ananiasacts 2 years ago
Correction: "This looks like a great way to organize all that ***NUMERIC***data so that his engine can help us explore it."
For everything else it's useless.
rj6v 2 years ago
Right now I agree it appears quite challenged semantically speaking. But I expect that to change rapidly. There is a great deal more information available than merely the numeric, it's just not all that clear how to reference it unambiguously with natural language to yield a useful tool. I'm hoping they take us the challenge of integrating all of the economic data generated by government agencies into a form that will help us become a wiser electorate.
ananiasacts 2 years ago
"challenged semantically speaking"?
Seriously, how more semantically correct can a person be who types: sunflower?
I have tons of examples like that.
What I get annoyed about is that the guy made claims that turned out to be nothing but bull. He said he had found a way to turn language into numbers and "calculate results". What he failed to tell us is that it's mainly numbers related. Most people however search for things that are not related to numbers.
rj6v 2 years ago
sunflower worked fine for me. (came up with a lot of info about the plant, and offered to tell me about the word instead.)
I disagree that its limited. The site is filled with examples of stuff that does work. I have Mathematica, which has access to a lot of the same data, or I'd use WolframAlpha a lot more.
ananiasacts 2 years ago
"sunflower worked fine for me. (came up with a lot of info about the plant"
You're such a liar, it's isn't even funny anymore. All it comes up with are Latin names, it's nowhere near to what a site like Wikipedia provides.
"I disagree that its limited. "
You're such a liar...geesh. All the examples are all related to data. Type any famous name and all you get is a birth date/place and profession. Type in any plant or animal....again, very limited.
rj6v 2 years ago
I type in the name of my own site, can't be found, even if it's ranked #1 with many search arguments in any major seach engine. I type in "Marco Borsato", the best selling artist in the Netherlands and I get a comparison between the place "Marco" in Brasil and "Borsad" (even different spelling) in India, when I put the full name between quotes.
I type the same in Google and you get 890,000 pages!
rj6v 2 years ago
"The site is filled with examples of stuff that does work"
That only proves that THOSE samples work, it's a marketing strategy, don't you get it? Have you seen how many people and hardware they need for this? They're not going to do this all for free without getting any return. All the examples are pre-frabricated and are all based on science and numbers. Don't ask more about Abraham Lincoln,because all you get is that he was president and his birth date/place.... how useful...sigh
rj6v 2 years ago
I'm really not trying to mislead you or misrepresent the site. I think you're expecting an encyclopedic source, like Wikipedia, while I'm expecting something a lot more structured--where the information returned just places you at a specific place in an abstract "idea space" encompassing all of human knowledge.
But you do make a great suggestion--That they should incorporate links to other well known information sources of different types whenever the "node" requested has an entry there.
ananiasacts 2 years ago
"I think you're expecting an encyclopedic source, like Wikipedia"
No, I'm not, I've been reading his blog and watched related videos for months now. He gave the impression that he managed to compute with language, he never said that it was basically limited to numbers.
I agree, it's great for people who need those numbers, but how many realy do, he pretended it to be more than it really is and that annoys me.
rj6v 2 years ago
I expected to get answers on things like "largest city of Canada", "first pope", "translate table to french", "who discovered australia", etc
rj6v 2 years ago
I'm disappointed with the limitations as well, but it is a first stab at an enormously difficult problem and it is likely to evolve rapidly--the way mathematica did, to encompass more and more of what you and I expect.
I'm probably unrealistically excited about the prospects for it, but do think they're likely to incorporate useful ideas, like linking entries more usefully to other sites. I also think we're not getting to see the full extent of it due to legal limits on their use of the data.
ananiasacts 2 years ago
*** Right now I agree it appears quite challenged semantically speaking. But I expect that to change rapidly ***
Oh you do huh? Whooptie freaking do. I'm sure that alleviates everyone's concerns (snort).
marosci 2 years ago
As a free information source online I rate this as about a 7 with wikipedia and google being examples of 10s.
As a new approach to organizing the world's information I rate it as high as the web itself. It appears to be a fundamental extension to the idea of uniform resource identifiers and a means of connecting together all parts of the semantic web and various private databases.
What made the web wasn't so much Tim's software but what people did with it. We'll have to wait to find out.
ananiasacts 2 years ago
Wolfram Alpha is an epic fail when you look up things not related to numbers.
rj6v 2 years ago
JZ is very handsome
MootingQueen 2 years ago
It's a bit silly to go and compare this to Skynet. The system appears to have two deficiencies that prevent it from becoming a Skynet-esque AI: it does not engage in self-directed learning, and it has no curiosity.
Were that to be the case, it would have to be able to identify weak areas in its knowledge base, prioritize those weak spots, carry out some form of self-directed search for information, and translate that into the format necessary to integrate with the rest of the knowledge base
BeefotronX 2 years ago
what's the difference between the gdp of france and italy,
17$ per hour times 365 days,
number of stars in the universe / the number of cells in the human body
the distance between uranus and jupiter / the distance between the sun and the moon, this one won't return anything even though each of the two elements of the question can be answered individually.
Having a function/syntax to get names of items in a category of objects would be nice. ex: names of constellations, names of cities in
philinmotion 2 years ago
....BORING!
roemchen123 2 years ago
Is this the end of library science or the future of that field?
ananiasacts 2 years ago
here's the source code to WolframAlpha:
PRINT 42
Cool!
ruibjr 2 years ago 4
Why not a more novel approach like ....
The Miss Manners Knowledge Engine ....
The John Madden Knowledge Engine ....
The Man On The Street Knowledge Engine ....
allergic2kryptonite 2 years ago
Knowledge management equals learning??? Learning is acquiring knowledge and knowledge management is analysis. Actually by knowledge management here you probably mean partiality. I think Wolfram|Alpha will be actually searching a data base or Website rather than the Internet.
The beauty of the Internet is on its impartiality, and that information is never taken for granted. When it comes out my first inquire will be on global warming and see how factual the "information managers" are.
SuperFinGuy 2 years ago
Agreed!
Google need not worry, but they probably got some great ideas out of this ;)
... so did I... Not from Wolfram, but he comfirmed something vital
asdfff999 2 years ago
Coool, maybe use the web to sort out this type of information and then assist the user to verify it??
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jackot91 2 years ago
Incredible. Are there many academic institutions in US academia-land? Where's the focal point for academics when it comes to studying the internet and all its parts? Berkman Center is stunning. Good help. Thanks
calwonderman 2 years ago
umm... skynet in disguise much?
trickmastermonkey 2 years ago
Don't be silly, Wolfram is English. Everyone knows Skynet is run by the *Americans*.
calrogman 2 years ago
The answer i 42 noobenstein. Seriously, that's what it gives.
somnolent49 2 years ago 3
Sound quality was pretty poor for this.
Really enjoyed it though!
m0r1arty 2 years ago
Man, that host is annoying....cracking jokes, answering for the speaker, constantly interrupting. Dude, it's not about you. Just introduce the speaker then sit down and be quiet.
lag56206 2 years ago 5
Great free advertising for Da-Lite
TerenceCollins 2 years ago
He's clumsy with his hands. He might be one of the smartest people in the world, got a PhD at 20 and wrote a paper on particle physics at the age of 14.
angela1894 2 years ago
This will be actually working and useful AI !
rafcom7 2 years ago
is will be great for me and others in university/college...nice job!
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TheMaryyee 2 years ago
So this is some kind of Flight-Of-Thought enabler ?
PrivateSlacker 2 years ago
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MistaVega 2 years ago
Now there's an intelectual in his element,
His assistant says "93 internet users in the Vatican City, they must be doing other things" you could literally see his mind wander onto that idea for a second, then he's straight back onto the issue at hand.
MarcusCardiff 2 years ago
Definitely looking forward to trying it out sometime this May - when it's ready.
Inspiring - such fun to see these things - technology - developing in front of our eyes & so fast.
The Internet savy are lucky to be living during this period & to watch it continue to explode from 1995.
I've can remember the wonder of first landing on the moon - this seems to me to have been the ultimate inspiration to many in IT.
For example it is the root of why I became a software now Internet developer.
hypermap 2 years ago
this wold be great if comes with voice recognition instead of typing questions for exp. in my iphone!
rimpick 2 years ago
Why is when a new technology comes out that has ai in it people say sky-net?
rimpick 2 years ago
i don't see it replacing google.
more like complementing it.
google is an index of contents available on the web. it gives us raw data while wolframalpha purports to give us cooked knowledge.
while google will always give us materials to be cooked, sometime it requires time consuming efforts to collect, sort and process them. on the other hand, cooked results are not always the ones we wanted.
agungk 2 years ago
sounds like sky-net to me
darkcrysis 2 years ago
kind of long but my question is
how does it compare to Google in porn searching?
abimael555 2 years ago
well...the only question i have is:
How have they done putting a video of 1 hour and 45 min on youtube?!
ANEAR88 2 years ago
lol nice one
maysam1382 2 years ago
Jeez...can't some of you folks just listen to words? Does EVERYTHING have to be visual? Maybe they didn't want to show the program until release anyway.
phlashba 2 years ago 2
Wait, but wouldn't that enable all humans to have resource to an Einsteinian mind?
Hotmale329 2 years ago
in my belief, internet will evolve into an integral organ of modern humans. once we found ways to brain-like computation engine with simultaneous processing and parallel activation of data stored in memory, and a way to interpret brain activities into textual chunks, then we will be able to extend our brain capacity and processing speed.
we all be jeopardy champions. i am not sure we will be einstens, but certainly it will help most of us in understanding quantum electrodynamics.
agungk 2 years ago
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Hotmale329 2 years ago
I see. Thanks
Hotmale329 2 years ago
camerman sucks ass
Stiffmeisteer 2 years ago
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Controlled Answers = BIASED ANSWERS... Jewish (kaballah) owned like everything else.
StickyAnus 2 years ago
Asking ALL the wrong questions.
Unbelievable!
ae0nfl0x 2 years ago
Perhaps after the launch they'll post another video with all the screenshots. I'd watch it again - I'd already listened to this on mp3. Can't wait for the launch, I've had it bookmarked for weeks. ;-J
nagualdesign 2 years ago
That looked like it had the potential to be an amazing talk and webcast.... if only they could get a cameraman that doesn't suck ass. I can't stand to watch this.
RoFLKOPTr 2 years ago
Shit video, we can't see anything what he's doing.
warpx1 2 years ago
It would be great if this were REALLY competition for Google....Nothing works as an absolute monopoly...
Great work, Stephen!
Now if Wolframalpha gets a grip on popular culture questions, we'll be seeing real and viable competition...Hope it happens!
2bsirius 2 years ago
what an incredible program, sounds like a person will only be limited by their own imagination,
dmac6722 2 years ago
How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
plarkmoby 2 years ago
LOL... you guys are discussing the bloody cameraman and the quality of images... erm try listening to what he says... it's an incredible sounding tool. Unlike Google and search engines where you (the user) has to point and shoot at optimized search results... you get the answer... flames. I wonder what the Wolfram Engine will say about "Google" 5 stars.
askbaby 2 years ago 12
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plarkmoby 2 years ago
Wolpha? Why not just wolf? Lemme see your laptop I need to wolf something!
loltehinternet 2 years ago 2
How about we give it the nickname Wolpha?
gremlinn7 2 years ago 6
I will have to try it
sansanbel 2 years ago 4
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He needs to learn how to speak in public. They need a cameraman.
I thought WA was going to exhibit some "intelligence" - this just looks like a fancy Google.
smirkingman 2 years ago
It's amusing that you note this and get a thumbs down. It's true. They have no business presentation skills. Either that or they are deliberately trying to position themselves as academics. It's sad that they don't try harder to present it better. It does look brilliant however.
mrperson99 2 years ago
He got lots of thumbs down I suspect because it looks nothing like a fancy google. It's not a search engine. It almost needs to have this on the first page of the website I suspect.
Every not technical person that I've discussed this with says "It sounds like Ask Jeeves, you remember Ask Jeeves?".
Looks great. I can't wait for it to be released. I just wonder how they'll monetarize the site or if that's their intention? I should imagine that the computation requires some fast computers.
mangoswiss 2 years ago 2
That's exactly what the title tell us: Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha. Sadly the cameraman aparently was not able to properly show the screen behind Stephen once and gave up trying to do it the rest of presentation...
Otherwise we could be able to see something working.
henoliv 2 years ago 2
Worst cameraman ever! :( Great talk ruined.
whaleyboy0 2 years ago 2
Agree 100%. All over the place.
DHFrame 2 years ago
I think Wolfram needs to pee.
Moving from one leg to the other. My son does that all the time... :-)))
There is also a little mathematical error on the second line on slide three.
Wish I could see the Q&A on the laptop!!!
Cemster69 2 years ago
Really sad the slides thing... I was hoping to see something! That sucks!
santia8o 2 years ago 4
I was so excited about this video, but without the slides it might as well be a blank page...
csikjarudi 2 years ago
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Extreme vaporware.
MTd2 2 years ago
"Wolfram|Alpha" is just not as catchy as "google". It's about time there was some competition out there.
carterweb 2 years ago
I think it's a pretty catchy name. Plus, Alpha will probably be removed later so it's just "Wolfram"
Vire70 2 years ago
It's not competition for google. From what I've seen it looks like a statistical number cruncher. Looks like a lot of high level maths with real data already entered into it for you.
Will have to wait and see what exactly it can and can't do. I don't think it searches web-pages though.
looni3 2 years ago 3
it's a Computational Knowledge Engine not a search engine!
jims1973 2 years ago 5
Why not just point the camera at a wall since that's what you did.
yaosio 2 years ago 3
this videographer is an idiot. where is the overhead!!! typical college freshman in A/V class
megasuckfish 2 years ago 6
Shame on Harvard for not knowing how to record a video. I saw this tool at a closed preview and it is amazing. The audio just cannot do it justice.
alanlsavoy 2 years ago 5
5 to 6 million lines of code?!
looni3 2 years ago
And that's Mathematica code, which is more potent than Java or C++.
alanlsavoy 2 years ago
1/5 because it fails on not showing the slides. Anyone knows where to find them?
frag971 2 years ago 2
man he really does look like george costanza!
slackerfish 2 years ago
How can we judge the engine if can't see how it works! that is if anyone knows where we can get the slides... let us know :)
thenessycreature 2 years ago 3
Wolfram Phoenix.
KaoriBlue 2 years ago
very interesting but near useless without the video projection!
dabooka123 2 years ago 7
this sucks. i want to see the sides!!
hannestz 2 years ago 6
Smart guy with a seemingly valuable technology. But, who wants to watch someone talking for almost 2 hours with no visual references? Lame presentation. Guess we will just need to wait for the real thing.
danapointjohn 2 years ago
I'm excited! :)
makimonster 2 years ago 5
this is one of the worst recordings of a public lecture with slides. i want to see the slides. the most information and interest is in the slides.
pkrumins 2 years ago 5
It wasn't slides, but actual Alpha working, using a IP tunnel.
In any case, I think that Wolfram requested no Alpha screenshots in the recording, so we'll have to wait until mid may to see it in action.
ncc1701zzz 2 years ago 8
There's a separate video linked in this one where they show some (admittedly fuzzy) views of W|A output for several minutes. Maybe Wolfram compromised?
gremlinn7 2 years ago
And its nearly May already ^^
Lihinel 2 years ago