I found this on a friend’s twitter posting:

An Interview With Wolfram|Alpha.

In case you live under a rock, Wolfram|Alpha is

[...] a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.

So basically you ask it normal questions and it tries to give you a real answer (unlike a search engine that just spits links to other Web pages at you). The above ‘conversation’ is amusing and a little frightening. Is Wolfram|Alpha turning into an intelligent computer? Probably not. For me, however, it raises the question what intelligence is &emdash; isn’t it the ability to process a wide variety of knowledge? I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few years it can successfully pass the Turing Test.

Taken together with my post about augmented reality, I am sure we are in for a very exciting decade.