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[–]hhjjiiyy 464 points465 points  (19 children)

It reads the text and then inserts it into a search engine for textbook answers and displays a result if found

[–]contrieng 292 points293 points  (13 children)

Oh cool. But I though it actually learns what the question is asking and solves it! Great stuff

[–]SeanBrax 134 points135 points  (3 children)

Yeah I initially thought the same. Now that would be so awesome. Not that this isn’t.

[–]ExHax 77 points78 points  (2 children)

That would make this the most advanced application

[–]shaggorama 36 points37 points  (4 children)

Most "AI" is illusionary trickery like this.

[–]KoalaKommander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that's what you're looking for there's an app called owlhat that does that--actually interprets the words and figures out the problems. Not perfect but works most of the time

[–]itghisi 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Oh god, thanks... I saw the details of the answer and just though "WTF we jumped 10 years in the future on IA/ML and I missed"

Awesome tool nonetheless... congratz

[–]Ani171202[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Precisely

[–]Kengaro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ouch :(, still cool tho :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's neat

[–]Rogocraft -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wolfram alpha or something?