Wolfram - question answering engine

[natty]

http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/08/stephen-wolfram-speaks-about-his-new-question-answering-engine/

Scheduled to go live in May amidst rampant speculation and anticipation, the new service will attempt to take almost any natural language question and compute a factual answer within one or two seconds.

If you enter the query, “3/26/2009 + 90 days” you’ll get a page that gives a date ninety days later than the first date. If you enter “mt. everest height length of golden gate” you’ll get a page expressing the height of Mount Everest as a multiple of the length of the Golden Gate Bridge. If you enter “temperature in los gatos,” you’ll get something like the current temperature, a graph of the temperatures over the last week with projections for the next few days, and a graph of the temperatures over the last year.

[thefuzz]

sounds pretty wild....no more wiki answers

[natty]

It's live.

A query for 'carolina panthers win'

http://www75.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=carolina+panthers+win

[Panthro]

Who would want to know the temperature in units of cats?

[joemac]

They have a lot of work to do on that thing....I was messing around with it yesterday, and I was not impressed.