Not really... I think that the hype machine is going to explode this one.

If Wolfram's system works as it is demonstrated and described, the major breakthroughs lie in both the natural language input and of course the answers that the system is capable of providing.

While it's still very early, I think that the biggest hurdle the system will need to overcome is the quality of the information itself. The content that the system is fed (or finds) still needs to be accurate or at the very least verifiable against other sources. This drawback will not be immediately prevalent because as Mahalo itself has found, the answers to popular questions are much easier to reference then questions that rely either on very specific information or niche subjects.

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