Editor’s note: Michał Borkowski is CEO of Brainly, a social learning website. When you have a question you need answered, do you ask a friend or a robot? The answer to that question used to be easy.

Editor’s note: Below is a guest post from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, about a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha being developed by computer scientist Stephen Wolfram.

When people have questions, they often ask Google. They expect high-quality, accurate answers. Late last year, it emerged that the top answer Google gave to “Did the Holocaust happen?” linked to a neo ...

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