here are a large range of queries it can’t parse, and a large range of parsable queries it can’t answer even when it can answer the constituents out of which they should be answerable, but it handles a huge range of numeric and scientific queries correctly even in its current state. And Dr. Wolfram and his team are chipping away at the natural language blocks, at the holes in the curated data repository, and at increasing the type and depth of logical combination of constituents,

“I was quite positively impressed [with Wolfram Alpha],” said Cyc creator Doug Lenat. “As [Stephen Wolfram] said, it’s not AI, and not aiming to be, so it shouldn’t be measured by contrasting it with HAL or Cyc but with Google or Yahoo.

“While there are a large range of queries can’t parse, and a large range of parsable queries it can’t answer, it handles a huge range of numeric and scientific queries correctly even in its current state.

“And Dr. Wolfram and his team are chipping away at the natural language blocks, at the holes in the curated data repository, and at increasing the type and depth of logical combination of constituents.”