Comment on IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”? by AI guy
And you must remember that all this time Watson was consuming 65 kW of power while competing against a human brain that works at 20W (peak throughput) and which can still multitask other important...
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[...] Think is an online knowledge forum called IBM’s Watson “not so impressive” while Memesteading posed the question as to whether the computer was just over provisioned “big iron”. After all [...]
View ArticleComment on IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”? by JC
I agree. In your examples you got rid of all the functional words that give meaning to the language and still got the correct answers. For me the show was the equivalent of a student stealing the...
View ArticleComment on IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”? by John
Agreed 100%. People are saying Watson is overkill but it is actually rather weak compared to the human brain. Storage Watson 15 Terabytes, Brain 1000 Terabytes Processing power Watson 80 Teraflops...
View ArticleComment on IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”? by John
No it would NOT have achieved the same results. If you think it could go ahead and write the perl script and try it out! A perl script linked to Google would have got maybe 10% of answers right...
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Comment on IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”? by Kevin
If solving this problem is as easy as you claim, why did Google publicly congratulate IBM on this achievement? Follow @google@googleA Googler Chess? Check. Jeopardy? Check. Next up – Go? (We wouldn't...
View ArticleComment on IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”? by gojomo
I didn’t say it was ‘easy’; I suggested IBM wound up using far more hardware than necessary, probably for promotional/traditional purposes. I could see the development of the system as requiring...
View ArticleComment on IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”? by pdevore
Hey Al guy, Do you have a reference for that 65 kW of power? Thanks.
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[...] Because the gigabyte (-g) output rounds to the nearest gigabytes, unless you’re on Watson (IBM’s computer containing 15,000 gibabytes, or 15 terabytes, not of hard drive space, mind [...]
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