Who Wears the Smarty Pants? (Chess, Jeopardy, Go) According to popular press and marketing collateral human intelligence has been surpassed by machine (ie. “artificial”) intelligence as evidenced by machines “beating” humans at chess, Jeopardy, and Go. Let’s explore these phenomena. Deep Blue vs Kasparov With regard to IBM’s Deep Blue beating Kasparov, in the first game on (Deep Blue’s) move 44 (dependent upon […] Read
Hayden’s Law – Thorium in – Exaflops Out You heard it here first. Today’s supercomputers (and most datacenters) now use considerable power for their operation, and those supercomputers typically only run in the tens to hundreds (~130) of petaflops (varies depending on the benchmark used). They consume in the 2.2 to 17 megawatts of power to run them (as of June 2017). If […] Read
