Wolfram|Alpha has come online.

It looks a bit like a search engine, but its stated purpose is “making the world’s knowledge computable.”

Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

There are gaps in its “knowledge” right now, but the expectation is that over time its abilities will grow enormously. Its goals are very science-fictiony and make it sound like a nascent TechnoCore.

Bonus points for a vaguely sinister name; extremely powerful AIs should always be called something like Wintermute or GLaDOS or Mycroft.