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<blockquote data-quote="Ryan Lantzy" data-source="post: 691" data-attributes="member: 7"><p>Has anyone been watching Jeopardy! this week? If you haven't seen or heard about it, IBM has a super computer playing as a contestant. This week features Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the most successful Jeopardy contestants to ever play the game. Their calling it the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge, and it IBMs entry is a massively parallel supercomputer designed and built by IBM named Watson (after IBMs founder).</p><p></p><p>After the first round, Watson was tied with Brad with $5000, and Ken trailed with $400.</p><p></p><p>As I sit here watching them complete the second round Watson stands at $36681 Brad $5400 and Ken $2400.</p><p></p><p>Watson has been programmed with facts and algorithms to parse natural language questions and find the best answer. He has no connection to the internet but has a butt load of storage 16 TB of RAM and over 2800 POWER7 processor cores.</p><p></p><p>There is one more day of the challenge tomorrow, if you are at all interested in computers or seeing Star Trek type technology come to life... this is your chance.</p><p></p><p>Truly amazing times we live in.</p><p></p><p>Just to give you some idea of the feat that has been reached here, researchers have recently determined that all the processors in the ENTIRE WORLD contain the computational power of about one human brain. So Watson is really the underdog in this race.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryan Lantzy, post: 691, member: 7"] Has anyone been watching Jeopardy! this week? If you haven't seen or heard about it, IBM has a super computer playing as a contestant. This week features Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the most successful Jeopardy contestants to ever play the game. Their calling it the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge, and it IBMs entry is a massively parallel supercomputer designed and built by IBM named Watson (after IBMs founder). After the first round, Watson was tied with Brad with $5000, and Ken trailed with $400. As I sit here watching them complete the second round Watson stands at $36681 Brad $5400 and Ken $2400. Watson has been programmed with facts and algorithms to parse natural language questions and find the best answer. He has no connection to the internet but has a butt load of storage 16 TB of RAM and over 2800 POWER7 processor cores. There is one more day of the challenge tomorrow, if you are at all interested in computers or seeing Star Trek type technology come to life... this is your chance. Truly amazing times we live in. Just to give you some idea of the feat that has been reached here, researchers have recently determined that all the processors in the ENTIRE WORLD contain the computational power of about one human brain. So Watson is really the underdog in this race. [/QUOTE]
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