Is Wolfram Alpha God?
By Peter LloydIf you search “square root of 678” on Bing, you will get a long list of website links that may or may not lead you to the definition or the answer. Do the same on Yahoo, and you will receive the mathematical answer followed by a long list of the same kind of links.
Google “square root of 678,” and you will see a calculator with the answer displayed. Just in case maybe you want to multiply the result by some other number. Ask Wolfram Alpha the same question and you get the answer plus all kinds of relevant data into which you can drill and drill and find nothing but more relevant data.
If you haven’t met already, allow me to introduce you to Wolfram Alpha. Actually you will be introduced by Stephen Wolfram, the British scientist and chief designer of the Mathematica software application and its answer engine, Wolfram Alpha.
What a universally humanistic and creative objective to make all the world’s knowledge computable for everyone! The Internet on steroids, a more intelligent, precise, and presentable internet within the Internet. And not just for math and science. As the introduction above demonstrates, Wolfram Alpha also attempts to answer non-computational questions.
So I asked Wolfram Alpha, “Is there a god?” and got
Fair enough. Then I ask, Where is God? and got literally pages of information on the subject. In a related vein, I posed the question, “What is the meaning of life?” and Wolfram Alpha suggested the Monty Python film, The Meaning of Life.
As far as I’m concerned, Wolfram Alpha has my kind of answers!
See also:
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- Stephen Wolfram’s website
Songwriter, author, ghostwriter, copywriter, and content provider Peter Lloyd syndicates Right Brain Workouts and blogs for businesses including CoachQuest.
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