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Old 24th October 2016, 06:52 PM
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When are they gonna make a computer that can beat top humans at Wheel of Fortune?
We need a new #manhattanproject to make this happen.
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Old 24th October 2016, 07:20 PM
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As soon as they solve every fluid mechanics problem, and orbital dynamics problem, and weather prediction problem, and protein folding problem, and they run out of stuff to spend clock cycles on.
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Old 24th October 2016, 07:25 PM
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when they going to cancel wheel of fortune
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Old 25th October 2016, 06:07 AM
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About five minutes after somebody gives a shit.
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Old 25th October 2016, 07:08 AM
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Do you think they could build a computer that could beat Michael Larson at Press Your Luck
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Old 25th October 2016, 08:15 AM
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Seems like somebody could do it, if they cared enough to try.

Couldn't it be similar to what happens with search engines, when we misspell something and Google figures out what we're looking for? There would just have to be blank spaces instead of incorrect letters.
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Old 25th October 2016, 08:29 AM
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I think the catch would be in giving the computer a huge database of "likely" answers. Otherwise it has no way to choose between warming the oven and worming the oven.
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Old 25th October 2016, 09:15 AM
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Just DVR it and watch it backwards.
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Old 25th October 2016, 07:58 PM
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It would be remarkably easy- just need a dictionary and the skeleton of an password cracker. Big blue or any existing supercomputer could do it with a simple change in parameters

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Old 25th October 2016, 08:49 PM
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It's a joke thread dumb ass. My Atari 800XL was able to do this.
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