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by mkramlich 5607 days ago
> It seems like Watson is mostly a really sophisticated algorithm on top of lots of brute force (2880 processors?!). Though I guess it could also be said that humans are just ugly bags of mostly water.

Arguably Ken Jennings is mostly a really sophisticated algorithm on top of lots of brute force (billions of neurons?). And computers are just pretty blocks of mostly silicon. :)