Here is an interesting list of Wolfram|Alpha easter eggs. One that it failed to mention was “how many pickled peppers did peter piper pick?” A second list is available here.
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Here is an interesting list of Wolfram|Alpha easter eggs. One that it failed to mention was “how many pickled peppers did peter piper pick?” A second list is available here.
Tags: easter egg, Wolfram|Alpha
These easter eggs are probably hand-coded in. But it doesn’t seem far-fetched in the future for search systems to learn such cultural responses (in a variety of cultures and subcultures) from simply analyzing information on the internet. I guess at that point, such things won’t be considered easter eggs any more.
And as technology goes through that adolescent growth phase, the only response we’re going to be able to get from the system is “yer mom”