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Machines could ultimately match human intelligence, says Intel CTO

Intel’s Justin Rattner discusses the “singularity” and future of supercomputing
By Jon Brodkin, Network World
September 21, 2009 01:25 PM ET
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The industry will have to move that number down to something practical, perhaps tens of megawatts, Rattner said. But the work is just getting started.

"We've got a lot of really big engineering challenges," Rattner said. "Today, we just don't know how to get there."

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match human intelligence?By Anonymous on September 22, 2009, 3:41 amCertainly, they've already matched the intelligence of the Intel CTO.

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A machine as inetelligent as a humanBy Anonymous on September 22, 2009, 9:37 amJust keep in mind that EVERY previous time that we thought we had a machine as smart as a human, we have only found that our definition of human intelligence is...

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With the vast improvement inBy Online Degrees in California on September 22, 2009, 12:20 pmWith the vast improvement in todays technology it is is quite possible

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neverBy Anonymous on September 23, 2009, 12:40 pmbut we never have thought that we had a machine as smart as a human before.... and we don't now, we are just hypothesizing that one could be in the works given the...

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It's less that we "find ourBy jejones3141 on September 23, 2009, 2:39 pmIt's less that we "find our definition of human intelligence is flawed" than that we fudge the definition of human intelligence so that we can keep thinking of ourselves...

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I concur. He's alreadyBy Anon on September 23, 2009, 2:42 pmI concur. He's already forget the fact world's two fastest computers are both powered by AMD!! not Intel. God, what a lamer... http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/060908-ibm-roadrunner-supercomputer.html?ap1=rcb 1....

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