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Re:Wolfram Alpha Live by gcanyon on Saturday May 16, 2009 @11:31AM (#612227)
Everyone should stop being impressed that it can answer complex math questions. It obviously has instances of Mathematica available to it, that's probably the first thing Wolfram hooked it up to.

This isn't a search engine. It's a web-based expert system with strong data-manipulation and presentation capabilities.

Re:Wolfram Alpha Live by paulgb on Saturday May 16, 2009 @12:23PM (#612281)
If I understand correctly, most of it is actually written in mathematica.

True, it's an expert system and doesn't appear to be anything new in terms of AI, but it's still pretty impressive.

(edit: according to Wikipedia, "It is written in 5 million lines of Mathematica [...]")