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On May 10, 10:59 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > Found this article that might be of interest (http://mechape.blogspot.com/ > ): > > I'm eagerly waiting to see what kind of surprise is brewing under the > guise of "computational knowledge engine" called Wolfram Alpha > announced by Steven Wolfram in March and settled to debut in May. > Steven Wolfram was widely credited for his Mathematica software > package and equally criticized for the book "A New Kind of > Science” ,abbreviated NKS , explained his new creation : > > I had two crucial ingredients: Mathematica and NKS. With > Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything—as well > as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation. And with NKS, > I had a paradigm for understanding how all sorts of complexity could > arise from simple rules. > > But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have > accumulated? > > A lot of it is now on the web—in billions of pages of text. And > with search engines, we can very efficiently search for specific terms > and phrases in that text. > But we can’t compute from that. And in effect, we can only answer > questions that have been literally asked before. We can look things > up, but we can’t figure anything new out > > While many dubbed it like a potential Google killer I don't expect > from Wolfram|Alpha to be used in mass on the Google scale. Essentially > it is not a general searching tool, but is meant to become a tool for > "truth discovery". But the truth is that most people are not looking > for computable "truth discovery", they are sufficed with finding the > facts and then using their own brains to accomodate that data to build > their own knowledge base. > I won't be as cynical as Ted Dziuba who wrote : > "That sounds an awful lot like the marriage of some Python scripts > with a few hundred bucks spent hiring third world workers through > Amazon Mechanical Turk.". > > (A blog for the WA was launchedhttp://blog.wolframalpha.com/) > > Speaking of search engines and our latest global fever i tried Cuil > (almost forgotten another Google-killer) to search for "swine flu" and > i was kinda surprised. On the first page i found link pointing to one > very good article describing 1976 swine flu case. And another link > about recombination of birds and pigs flu virus genes, which dates > from 2007, not exactly the last news as you might wrongly infer from > the current media frenzy. If you had already encyclopedic info which > you can find in Wikipedia those additional pieces are good hits and > they are not easily found with general purpose search engines. What > this is good for explaining knowledge ? When you have initial base you > need the tools for finding more deep knowledge. And this is exactly > what is lacking both in Wolfram Alpha project and even upcoming > semantic web with all their ontologies. We don't have formal > understanding what is "deep knowledge" which could also be adjusted > according to the users needs. > > I think this reflects another leap in technology as extension of > self. What do YOU think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
