We're not building a machine that calculates answers, he says; instead, we're discovering questions.
The moral clarity of her title is therefore not the ability to calculate answers to the practical conundrums that life sets us.
He would also look up or calculate answers and radio them to the test taker, who would be wearing a wireless earpiece.
In contrast, the Wolfram engine mainly taps its own curated databases, on everything from astronomy to genomics, then calculates answers and presents interesting tables and graphics to searchers using Mathematica.
Going back to Slashdot, commenter "harlows monkeys" said, "You can't meaningfully compare Google and WolframAlpha, because what they are meant to do is so different". I disagree: while it's true that Google primarily searches the Web, and Wolfram Alpha primarily culls and calculates answers from databases, they are both meant to answer your questions usefully.
Once the teaching process is complete, the network can be used to calculate answers from new inputs.Like many in his field, Dr Marshall uses neural networks to discard the huge amounts of boring data produced in particle colliders and to identify the interesting events.
Instead of retrieving ready-made Web pages that match a user's query, Wolfram Alpha calculates answers on the fly based on a relevant set of data presumably located somewhere in the cloud.
Mr. Poterba and his colleagues calculated an answer by following two imaginary investors over 37 years -- 1962 through 1998.
Neither had any know-it-all pretensions, but no matter: They found multiple sites that calculated the answer just fine.
Participants were instructed to perform the arithmetic and to answer whether the result of the arithmetic was odd or even by pressing the left or right button, respectively, as quickly as possible when they calculated the answer.
