[ExI] Watson On Jeopardy

[Kelly Anderson]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:21:26PM -0700, Kelly Anderson wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>> > On 02/16/2011 10:15 AM, spike wrote:
>> > Not the same problem domain or even all that close.  Can you turn it into a
>> > really good chatbot?  Maybe, maybe not depending on your standard of "good".
>> >  But that wouldn't be very exciting.    Very expensive way to keep folks in
>> > the nursing home entertained.
>>
>> Samantha, are you familiar with Moore's law? Let's assume for purposes
>
> Kelly, do you think 3d integration will be just-ready when
> CMOS runs into a wall?

Perhaps, perhaps not. But I think ONE out of the several dozen
competing paradigms will be ready to pick up more or less where the
last one left off.

> Kelly, do you think that Moore is equivalent to system
> performance? You sure about that?

No. Software improves as well, so system performance should go up
faster than would be indicated by Moore's law alone would indicate.
:-)

-Kelly