If you’ve never heard of it before, there is a new kind of search engine in town. Its name is Wolfram|Alpha and it is brought to you by the guys who made Mathematica. It uses the Mathematica engine and some magical algorithms to answer your search queries. Now, none of this scares me the least but. But when computers acquire a sense of humour, I am not so amused.
Try some of these queries on the engine (you can just click on it).
- What do women want?
- Are you Skynet?
- Are you self-aware?
- Can you pass the Turing test
- Answer to life, the universe, and everything
- I Love You.
- I Hate You.
- How long is a piece of string?
- What is the speed of an unladen swallow?
- How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?
- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
- Where did I put my keys?
- What is the sound of one hand clapping?
- Flux Capacitor
- 88 mph
- To be or not to be
- How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
- How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
- All your base
Who cares about Microsoft Bing.
I think its sense of humour is sweet. And fun.
It seems that the computer geeks behind the program have finally found a way to communicate with the rest of the human race (even scientists in their labs, engineers who are in the middle of the ocean near an oil rig, etc etc).
but i do have a query
what, other than the entertainment value, is it for? Does it actually bring up useful information? because it doesn’t bring up anything to any of my non-nonsensical searches
You need to phrase your question in the right way, lest it denies you your answer.