Comments on: Wolfram Alpha May Beat Wikipedia, not Google http://www.businesspundit.com/wolfram-alpha-may-beat-wikipedia-not-google/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Kelly http://www.businesspundit.com/wolfram-alpha-may-beat-wikipedia-not-google/comment-page-1/#comment-13962 Kelly Tue, 05 May 2009 15:58:21 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com/?p=10653#comment-13962 I'm in anticipation to see how this innovative CKE will give answers to questions directly. A software that calculates results from various sources, giving you detailed answers and other related info, will be very exciting... I’m in anticipation to see how this innovative CKE will give answers to questions directly. A software that calculates results from various sources, giving you detailed answers and other related info, will be very exciting…

]]> By: Ivo Cerckel http://www.businesspundit.com/wolfram-alpha-may-beat-wikipedia-not-google/comment-page-1/#comment-13932 Ivo Cerckel Tue, 05 May 2009 02:30:39 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com/?p=10653#comment-13932 Wolfram is happy to say that with a mixture of many clever algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and what probably amount to some serious theoretical breakthroughs, he has actually managed to make computers respond to the natural language with which humans communicate. In Book III, Chapter (Part?) 8 of De Anima (On the Soul), Aristotle, who also wrote a book De Partibus Animalium (On the Parts of Animals), wrote that the soul is analogous to the hand; for as the hand is a tool of tools, so the mind is the form of [432a] forms and sense the form of sensible things, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.3.iii.html I can tell you from the school of hard knocks, and I mean this literally, that a hand cannot be replaced by any prosthesis or hook. Can the human mind? We’ll see ... Ivo Wolfram is happy to say that with a mixture of many clever algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and what probably amount to some serious theoretical breakthroughs, he has actually managed to make computers respond to the natural language with which humans communicate.

In Book III, Chapter (Part?) 8 of De Anima (On the Soul),
Aristotle,
who also wrote a book De Partibus Animalium (On the Parts of Animals),
wrote that
the soul is analogous to the hand;
for as the hand is a tool of tools,
so the mind is the form of [432a] forms
and sense the form of sensible things,
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.3.iii.html

I can tell you from the school of hard knocks,
and I mean this literally,
that a hand cannot be replaced by any prosthesis or hook.

Can the human mind?

We’ll see …

Ivo

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