Why wolfram alpha find no solution to $x^\frac13= -1$?

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Surely, $x=-1$ is the only solution.

But, wolframalpha says there is no solution in the real field.

I think this is because they transformed $x^\frac13$ to $e^{\frac 13(\ln x)}$.

But why did they use this identity to solve the equation? What is the benefit of doing this?