Outsmarting the worlds smartest computer

[fido123]

Re: Outsmarting the worlds smartest computer

I'm not sure if you firmly grasp how computers work reuben. What you're talking about is a subprocess, which is a very old programming technique used in pretty much everything. Other processes can also create it's own full process but it's really only a difference of organization/reliability. If you open a bunch of tabs on the web browser Chrome and check processes currently running you'll see a chrome.exe for every tab open.

The real reason why this super-computer isn't as good as a human brain is mainly because the software to already produce these results is extremely complex and many many hours. To make more code it would take more man hours, more money, more detail (adds to complexity), and every employee would probably have a pretty high pay-check for being extremely skilled programmers, maybe some medical professionals to help the programmers understand how the human brain interprets language.

[Izzy]

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I don't really think rueben was using the right word, but I think he just means that a program can't write new code to make new functions for itself. How can a program know what new functions it would need? That is the real problem with AI.

[benguino]

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I don't really think rueben was using the right word, but I think he just means that a program can't write new code to make new functions for itself. How can a program know what new functions it would need? That is the real problem with AI.

Thanks Izzy for interpreting my post. A computer or robot does not have the ability to write it's own code based off of the computer's/robot's stimuli.

[MrGiggles]

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ten bucks says it just googles the question, appends site:wikipedia.com, and responds with the title of the top result

[Mans0n]

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means you must be one really smart person ;O

[Ninty64]

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ten bucks says it just googles the question, appends site:wikipedia.com, and responds with the title of the top result

They said it doesn't have access to the internet, so no google. That would be "cheating" if it could access the internet while playing jeopardy.

But they did download the WHOLE Wikipedia and a lotta other crap to it. Since it has 15 Terrabytes of RAM, you can just imagine how much harddrive it must have. Although, maybe they use something similar to google to search through it all.

[benguino]

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They said it doesn't have access to the internet, so no google. That would be "cheating" if it could access the internet while playing jeopardy.

But they did download the WHOLE Wikipedia and a lotta other crap to it. Since it has 15 Terrabytes of RAM, you can just imagine how much harddrive it must have. Although, maybe they use something similar to google to search through it all.

I bet it has some sophisticated searching algorithm.

[Izzy]

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It probably has only about 15 terabytes of HD space as well. If I was creating this machine then I would have it load its entire database of information into ram on startup. This way you never have to go to the harddrive to lookup information which is around 100x-1000x slower then getting something from ram.
There are some distro's of linux that can be loaded entirely onto ram when you boot your computer. Makes for a very fast OS.

[Duplica]

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When Watson wins at price is right, THAT'll be impressive

[ninjaKIWI]

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It probably has only about 15 terabytes of HD space as well. If I was creating this machine then I would have it load its entire database of information into ram on startup. This way you never have to go to the harddrive to lookup information which is around 100x-1000x slower then getting something from ram.
There are some distro's of linux that can be loaded entirely onto ram when you boot your computer. Makes for a very fast OS.

It has 15TB of RAM, but the information it searches through is actually under 1TB.

It's not a very large database in terms of 'size'. Remember, it's all text. It indexes the entire database multiple times in its RAM.

[Reincarnate]

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Written by Jennings himself

http://www.slate.com/id/2284721/pagenum/all/

[Zageron]

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That was a great read. Thanks.

This is a huge improvement from the chess computer back in the day. :P