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Elon Musk has a new toy
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 Elon Musk has a new toyWe can't imagine what nefarious applications Musk will be using his new toy for, but it will compete strongly with Microsoft's AI research capabilities. www.youtube.com |
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Correction His new toy computer is names Colossus --- It is said to be the most powerful computer in the world. Memphis Tennessee was selected for Colossus because the area has a robust electric grid and it's close to the Mississippi River --- Musk needs millions of gallons of water for cooling so he's building a water processing plant to clean the Mississippi Muddy water that he drains from it. |
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Colossus movie en.wikipedia.org It and the Soviet computer Guardian try to take over the world. |
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Vanessa I wonder if the movie is where Musk got the name, and take over the world --- huh Musk? |
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Bob From AI Overview. Yes, there was a real-world chess-playing computer named Deep Thought, developed by Carnegie Mellon University and later IBM, which became the predecessor to Deep Blue. It was named after the fictional computer Deep Thought from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. |
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Mo You got the allusion. 'Deep Thought' was the second-most powerful computer in the entire history or future of the Universe. It was asked to explain the meaning of life. After millions of years of Artificial Itelligence pondering, it answered '42'. It confessed that it was not capable of providing the question, but it offered to design the greatest computer, even surpassing itself, to complete that quest. I won't spoil the story. |
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bobspringett Deep Thought played Garry Kasparov in a two-game exhibition chess match in 1989. The matches took place at the New York Academy of Art, and Kasparov won both games quite easily. Deep Thought's play was considered disappointing despite being capable of searching over two million positions per second at that time. This match paved the way for further development of computer chess, leading to the creation of Deep Blue, which later played more famous matches against Kasparov in the 1990s. So when I originally saw the post, I didn't understand what you meant. |
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Deep Thought "If a child asks 'Why does it rain?', tell them 'It's because God is crying'. And if the child asks 'Why is God crying?', tell them 'Probably because of something you did.'" “If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that’s what he’s getting.” “It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.” Or ICE. "One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.” Now, of course, DeSantis has been waging war on Disney, threatening to open a prison nearby. How far from it is Alligator Alcatraz? A child’s face can say a lot- especially the mouth part of the face. “Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.” Finally, this one is a little bit too on the nose: I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot. |
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Hitchhiker’s Guide The book was ok—not sure why it was as popular as it was. It seemed like a lot of the same joke just in different contexts. No deep insights into the human condition—just nonsense. It did provoke some thought on language and logic, but not a great deal. Adam’s also wrote a book with a biologist on animals facing extinction, which I learned about in Dawkins’ “The Ancestor’s Tale,” which I haven’t read. Ancestor’s is well written. |
