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Comment Re:It can beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, but... (Score 1) 674

But it may be able to answer a lot of questions asked by, say, a phone support caller.

Or better yet, questions posed from a phone marketer. I would certainly consider purchasing a product that was able to engage a telemarketer for a non-trivial length of time without committing me to buy something from that telemarketer.

Comment Re:Reality check (Score 1) 662

Considering that the fastest space vehicles ever created took 3 months to travel a mere 8 light *minutes* (somewhere around one-16000th the speed of light), the assumption that we will ever reach even a significant fraction of the speed of light with a vehicle created anytime in the conceivable future is a bit of an overstretch to say the *least*.

No problem... A quick application of Moore's Law and we should be ready for launch in about 30 years.

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