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 > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
