IBM Supercomputer Beats Jeopardy! Genius Ken Jennings

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Patrice Maire

It would only have been a fair contest if they dialed down it's computing speed to that of the contestants. You combine millisecond computing with all the knowledge compiled in the world and... duh..
I would like to know what the computer will do with all that money?

Humans don't have a clock speed - it's actually difficult to imagine how even an equivalent would be determined, as the human brain could easily be considered a parallel system, and the structure is entirely different.
The challenge is in processing the question to determine WHAT is being asked and then forming a coherent reply - it's not like it was beating a human at making calculations, ether naturally, or in a game such as chess - humans and computers process information in completely different ways at the most basic level (although humans can apply it to perform computer-like operations such as binary arithmetic, it's just extremely slow, the same goes for computer systems producing a neural network or analogous system, or performing tasks such as pattern recognition in software).