Quick test.

Q: What world leader lost 2 fingers playing with grenades as a boy?

powerset.com: doesn't know.

cognition.com (wiki): doesn't know.

google.com: the second link leads to a scanned page of a book giving the answer 
as Boris Yeltsin.

-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]


--- On Fri, 9/19/08, BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [agi] Where the Future of AGI Lies
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:34 AM
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jiri Jelinek wrote:
> > There is a difference between being good at
> > a) finding problem-related info/pages, and
> > b) finding functional solutions (through reasoning),
> especially when
> > all the needed data is available.
> >
> > Google cannot handle even trivial answer-embedded
> questions.
> >
> 
> Last I heard Peter Norvig was saying that Google had no
> interest in
> putting a natural language front-end on Google.
> <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/18/1530209>
> 
> But other companies are interested. The main two are:
> Powerset <http://www.powerset.com/>
> and
> Cognition <http://www.cognition.com/>
> 
> A new startup Eeggi is also interesting.
> <http://www.eeggi.com/>
> 
> 
> BillK
> 



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