New Synthetic Intelligence Believes Douglas Adams’ Answer To The Question ‘What Is The Meaning Of Life?’ Is Correct
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
By Darryl Mason
You can ask answer machine Wolfram Alpha anything. These are birthday temperatures in Sydney across my life :
You can ask it the deepest philosophical questions :
WoPha appears to know all.
But not everything.
You won’t always get an answer from Wolfram Alpha, sometimes it doesn’t know what the hell you’re asking it four or five times in a row, so you have to warn it not to mess with you :
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However great it will be for scientists and dedicated researchers of statistics and graphs, the answer engine point blank refuses to come clean when you bombard it with certain questions about where its true loyalties lie :
When you get specific, it chooses to play dumb :
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Something very similar to Wolfram Alpha logarithms will be in the first robohuman brains that can almost pass for old human.
However, if they want to move amongst us mostly undetected, they will have to come up with a better answer than “I am not sure what to do with your input.”
