I don't particularly care about advanced maths and don't have any interesting questions to ask when faced with Alpha.
It's getting mentioned all the time. I've now seen may mentions of ways that it fails. Is there anything that it is actually notably good at? People are obviously excited enough to be giving grief - is there a type of problem at which it is strong in a way that hasn't yet been done on the web?
It's quite cool to be able to type in 'sin 5' and the like but google does that already.
I can't think of much to use Alpha for yet either, but I think it represents a significant accomplishment nevertheless, in a frontiers of knowledge representation/interaction sort of way. Doug Lenat describes it as halfway between Google and his Cyc project on the generality <-> sophistication spectrum (see link), which is a fairly impressive accomplishment (it can do a lot more than just 'sin 5'). It may not end up being much more useful than Cyc is at the moment, but it's still an advance. This stuff will get better, but we still have to go through the intermediate steps.
I don't particularly care about advanced maths and don't have any interesting questions to ask when faced with Alpha.
It's getting mentioned all the time. I've now seen may mentions of ways that it fails. Is there anything that it is actually notably good at? People are obviously excited enough to be giving grief - is there a type of problem at which it is strong in a way that hasn't yet been done on the web?
It's quite cool to be able to type in 'sin 5' and the like but google does that already.