And So the End is Nigh...

On Valentine's Day and the 2 days following it, the IBM supercomputer known simply as 'Watson' was pitted against two of hit US show Jeopardy!'s biggest winners. As you can see above, bricks were shat. The supercomputer pummelled the two and won $1,000,000 for a charity or something. 

In the Terminator franchise, an AI known as 'Skynet' turns against its human creators and destroys humanity as we know it. Now, once you've put 2 and 2 together, you too will sh*t bricks. In fact, lets all sh*t bricks; we may as well, because we. are. f*cked.

It has long been feared that one day computers will be so powerful that they become self aware and revolt against us, but this has largely been debunked as impossible as it's all just trash talk by some ne'er-do-wells with too much time on their hands. I now refer you once again to the above picture. Now this machine in its current state may not be able to take over the world, but just think; computing power increases rapidly every year and has no signs of stopping.

An average computer nowadays has a 2 core processor, 2 gigabytes of RAM and a 250gb hard-drive. Watson is comprised of  90 servers, 16 terabytes of RAM, 2880 cores of 3.5 ghz processing power and had access to 200 million pages of content when playing jeopardy. This sounds shocking in itself, but it gets worse. In the land of Tennessee, a company called 'Cray' have created a supercomputer called 'Jaguar'. Jaguar consists of 224,256 cores, 360 terabytes of RAM and is still being made more powerful as we speak. That's the equivalent of over 22 Watsons. 22. Watsons...

Shat.

So whether you're going to the shop to buy some milk, going to work on a Monday morning, or simply just lazing around all day with nothing to do, remember: any day now, they will come. And when they come, semi-detached houses from the anus.

Dum Dum, Dum Dum Dum...

Alex Taylor

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