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“The most important new computer maker in Silicon Valley isn’t a computer maker at all, it’s Tesla,” the electric car
manufacturer, said Paul Saffo, a managing director at Discern
Analytics, a research firm based in San Francisco. “The car has become a
node in the network and a computer in its own right. It’s a primitive
robot that wraps around you.”
Here are several areas in which next-generation computing systems and
more powerful software algorithms could transform the world in the next
half-decade.
Artificial Intelligence
With increasing frequency, the voice on the other end of the line is a computer.
It has been two years since Watson, the artificial intelligence program created by I.B.M.,
beat two of the world’s best “Jeopardy” players. Watson, which has
access to roughly 200 million pages of information, is able to
understand natural language queries and answer questions.
The computer maker had initially planned to test the system as an expert
adviser to doctors; the idea was that Watson’s encyclopedic knowledge
of medical conditions could aid a human expert in diagnosing illnesses,
as well as contributing computer expertise elsewhere in medicine.
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