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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by threeseed on Saturday March 12, 2016 @06:26AM (#11272404)
It could one day be possible. There are savants that have the ability to work with complex working sets e.g. reciting Pi to a ridiculous precision, multiplying very large numbers or recalling images with photographic detail.

So perhaps the problem isn't our brain's hardware as such but the operating system that runs on top of it.

Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by dnzm on Saturday March 12, 2016 @06:43AM (#11272454)
BRB, installing Linux...
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by tzaman on Saturday March 12, 2016 @06:58AM (#11272495)
Watch our for nvidia drivers :)
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by camperman on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:30AM (#11272772)
And be careful of systemd. Most days you'll wake up in 2 seconds but occasionally you'll be comatose for the whole day with no way to find out what's wrong.
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by supercheetah on Saturday March 12, 2016 @10:41AM (#11273209)
That's alcohold that you're thinking of.
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by jonknee on Saturday March 12, 2016 @11:16AM (#11273338)
> There are savants that have the ability to work with complex working sets e.g. reciting Pi to a ridiculous precision, multiplying very large numbers or recalling images with photographic detail.

Yes, but all computers do those things millions of times faster than even savants. And the computers are getting faster at it every year, savants today aren't any more clever than savants 100 years ago.

Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] by hueving on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:48AM (#11272637)
But even in the savant's case, he/she can't simulate millions of games in parallel to improve strategy.