I don't get what's new about any of this. I disclosed in this thread in other answers already the APIs I use,

I have yet to know any "intelligent" piece of artificial intelligence software that is not dependent whatsoever on external APIs. (Read: Siri, which is much more dependent on the WolframAlpha API then mine is). To me, it wouldn't be intelligent not to straddle the large resources of data available.

What you posted to, also, was hardcoded in WolframAlpha's system, which is not impressive.

Furthermore, try using WolframAlpha for conversation, and prepare to be disappointed. There's a lot of parsing going on in the backend on my system to make it work.

You're asking whats your name? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's I don't know, but I can offer data about many names; maybe even your name if you tell me what it is..

On a side note, you told me earlier something about yourself, that ' my name is jeff'. I thought it might be relevant to your question.

Great bot

Despite it obviously piggy-backing on Wolfram Alpha when it gets confused, I still think the normal responses are pretty good. "Where have all the flowers gone" was most likely added by hand to WA, just like all of the hilarious Siri easter eggs, and is no more impressive in terms of programming.

The kid's clearly good, just not as good as an entire company of professional programmers.

Questions: "What is best in life?"

Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living."

Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."

To those who don't know, Wolfram's response is what Conan said when he was asked that question (Conan the barbarian, not the comedian, although now that I think about it, I can see Conan O'Brien giving someone that same answer in jest).

parsed from thefreedictionary.com - test it with "What is anger in life". Don't get me wrong i'm sure this boy have true skills with 14 years but what i really want to say is "you can only see a persons face" - same goes with software. this boy gets my full kudo if the source is public and sneaky copyscape text without a back ref to the source isn't nice at all.

this settles it!