Limits To Computing: A Computer Scientist Explains Why Even In The Age Of AI, Some Problems Are Just Too Difficult
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits. Jie Wang, UMass Lowell Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few examples of their technological prowess. These successes could be taken to indicate that computation has no limits. To see if that’s the case, it’s important to understand what makes a computer powerful. There are two aspects to a computer’s power: the number of operations its hardware can execute per second and the efficiency of…
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