Some interesting notes about the latest Men v. Machine. Day one. I find it interesting that Watson apparently doesn't have to do some of the processing that the human brain does. Specifically, it doesn't seem to need to process the questions visually or verbally, or need to process the command to "press the button". Of course, it could do these things, but that would take time, at least if you "assume" the amount of time it takes for the brain to "press the button" for a human.
Kind of related.
UPDATE: More thoughts on what it means.
