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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by stdgy on Monday April 30, 2018 @02:21PM (#16960944)
How do we know the hardware will adequately support full self-driving if it doesn't actually exist yet?

That seems overly optimistic, if not an outright fabrication.

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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by tomp on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:39PM (#16961567)
Because humans can do driving with comparable (worse, actually) hardware. Superhuman reflexes mean that software with superhuman driving abilities can exist.
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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by mhermher on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:18PM (#16961868)
Humans also have human brains, which are much more important to driving than eyes.
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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by hacker11235 on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:27PM (#16961961)
This is the part that can be emulated in software. All you have to prove is that what ever platform/language you're using for the programming is Turing Complete, which is the case for almost all of the most popular languages.
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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by mhermher on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:26PM (#16962550)
So can I run Crysis on my TI calculator? I'm sure whatever platform/language is running on it is Turing Complete. I think you missed the point that the brain is also hardware.
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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by hacker11235 on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:54PM (#16962775)
Good point, I'm assuming their Nvidia GPUs have enough power/memory to do the processing they want to do.
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