In 2009, Wolfram released Wolfram Alpha, which takes natural language input, translates it into precise computational language, and returns computed answers; this was viewed as an AI system, but most people in AI at the time believed question-answering systems would never work, having failed for decades despite multiple approaches.
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“in the mid warts I decided okay it's time to actually try and do this and so that led to this system that uh came out in 2009 called wolf from alpha... People had tried to make question answering systems... They tried to do that for decades. It had never worked.”
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The AI Expert: "Super AI Will Be Unstoppable!" – What’s Coming NEXT | Stephen Wolfram— Sean KimCreated: 8/11/2026, 5:32:55 AM
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