There is something incredibly creepy about watching a supercomputer beat the best human players at Jeopardy. For neophytes: writing a computer program that plays Jeopardy is a super hard problem, and this is nothing less than totally amazing. The hardware specs on Watson are crazy – 2000 cores and 15 terabytes of RAM. I think all the hardware is general purpose (Deep Blue had purpose-designed chess-accelerator chips).
I wrote a research paper on Deep Blue in college – in the aftermath of it trounching Gary Kasparov, IBM’s stock shot up 10%, so I’m loading up. Sure, the human race might be doomed, but that’s no reason not to make a quick buck.
Engadget puts annoying commercials in these – what can I do?
LOL David looks like you john
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hehe you went to a jeopardy game? Haha