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Comment by Sephr | Hacker News Reader

I am very surprised with how it can intelligently generate forms based on a question. For example, the search "Am I too drunk to drive?" (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Am+I+too+drunk+to+drive...) generates a form where you can input various variables to answer the question.

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Need more than one example to call it intelligent. I tried "Am I mentally retarded?" (IQ test?), "Am I at risk for cancer?" (risk factor questionaire?), "Am I at risk for lung cancer?", "Do cigarettes cause cancer?" all without ANY results. Help me out here, what kinds of questions is it smart about?

From using it, it seems it's not so much smart as it is a whole bunch of hard coded solutions.

hmm, I filled out this form and it says I have a BAC of .06% Then it said time to .08% = 1hr

How does it know I'm going to keep drinking? Probably because it's only 9pm...

depending on how recently you drank, it takes time for your body to absorb the alcohol from your stomach...

Really, if you manage to formulate that query, think about the answers, and type them in, you are most likely not that drunk.

Edit: Still, interesting.

Data can be interesting and smart without being useful.

Do I win hacker points for being the type of person who would think to do exactly this while drunk?

You lose hacker points for posting a question staring with "Do I win hacker points...?" But if you are only joking, you only lose joke points.

So bookmark the query. Filling out a form is a lot easier to do while drunk than driving safely. Your fingers may have trouble hitting the keys correctly, but surely your brain remains usable?

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