To: fishtank
“the system is a cluster of 90 IBM Power 750 servers….Watson can process 500 gigabytes per second”...
And they have it making lunch?
4 posted on
03/19/2014 10:02:47 AM PDT by
mad puppy
(E PLURIBUS UNUM)
To: mad puppy
"And they have it making lunch?" It is sobering to think how far we still have yet to go before we even come close to devising a mechanism that can 'think'. All this hardware doesn't even do that.
And somehow a 5-lb glob of fat in our heads manages all that and more, on microvolts.
8 posted on
03/19/2014 10:24:27 AM PDT by
Joe Brower
(The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
To: mad puppy
“the system is a cluster of 90 IBM Power 750 servers….Watson can process 500 gigabytes per second
...And they have it making lunch?”
Reminds me of Marvin making tea in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
16 posted on
03/19/2014 11:24:19 AM PDT by
CrazyIvan
(Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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