It looks a bit like a search engine, but its stated purpose is “making the world’s knowledge computable.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Bonus points for a vaguely sinister name; extremely powerful AIs should always be called something like Wintermute or GLaDOS or Mycroft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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