Asking it "What is the meaning of life?" returned "42" which really just confirmed my own suspicions. Thanks Deep Thought, ahem, I mean, Wolfram Alpha :)
Today might my nightmare of the machines taking over inches one step closer to reality. Seriously this is could be the start of next gen knowledge based systems. Interesting point about encroaching on wikipedia, same for IMDB. Or financial sites - well just about any site with statistics. I guess it depends on who owns the data sources or how the data is collected.
@Xiphias - did you watch the video? I found that a great way to learn how to find what you want.
Also remember, while it is early days we all had a similar experience with search engines when they first appeared. We had to learn quotation marks, plus symbols etc to refine our searches. WolframAlpha is just the same - it simply takes a bit of practice.
its very slow today think everyone is trying it out as it was pretty quick during the night, I've too had quite a few blank pages as if it had given up trying to work it out.
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