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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by mike_hock on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:14AM (#21676100)
Also makes you wonder how he was going to input that into the computer using voice commands.
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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by zeeZ on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:54AM (#21676316)
It's not as surprising of you can imagine all the stuff probably going on in the background when you say "<assistant of choice>, play the next episode of Star Trek on my TV"
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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by mike_hock on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:39PM (#21676657)
Lots of stuff going on, but based on concepts known to the developers. He had to teach the computer how to synthesize a hitherto unknown substance. Can't get around the information entropy of the stuff he'd've had to input into the computer.
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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by Godel_unicode on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:38AM (#21680089)
How hard is it to say "take $known_aluminum_alloy and add $dopant using $heating_process"?
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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by dghughes on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:22PM (#21676540)
Obviously by using the corded speakerphone "Hello computer".
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