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Exascale systems are 1,000 times more powerful than the Tianhe-1A, the Chinese supercomputer that was recently ranked as the world's fastest.

Alright, who here watched Watson on Jeopardy and now thinks what ever 1,000 times more powerful computer they build will have strong-AI?

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The heavily statistical techniques used in Watson won't turn into a strong AI just by throwing more computing power at them, any more than I can turn into a horse by walking on my hands and knees while snorting periodically.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13863110/The-Unreasonable-Effectiv...

(Wow, that analogy ended up a little more disturbing than I'd intended.)

I think very few would think that.

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