Wired reminds us that Ken Jennings' human brain used as much energy as a 12-watt light bulb on Jeopardy, while Watson needed special cooling equipment, and that the Deep Blue computer that beat Gary Kasparov at chess was a fire hazard.
And, does Watson have "metaknowledge"? Can it recognize that it can't quite remember something but knows that it's on the tip of its cybertongue? Does it have the emotional power of "knowing"?
Not yet. Watson's interesting. Is it intelligent? No.
Emotions, especially when understood as value judgments, are part of the package of intelligence.
So, while Watson may have been hot under the cybercollar from the heat of his circuits, he never really was sweating, so to speak, because he couldn't.
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February 19, 2011
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