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>> reporter: viewers might be asking, what does the future hold after watching a supercomputer like watson take on two champion contestants? scientists will tell you that even though watson can handle 80 trillion instructions per second, that the human brain is still capable of far more. take that, watson. david muir. >> along with watson, abc news, new york. >> that was clever. >> i wonder why they built this technology. they say they want to build it for areas that need a lot of data analysis, health care, government, and so it will go to more -- >> and he got to the buzzer a lot faster. tha...

Manhattan phone book. watson can now hold 12 million of them. in the '80s ibm's first pc could understand about 5,000 words. watson, 125 billion. sometimes that data misses the human subtlety. >> stylish elegance or students who graduated in the same year. watson. >> what is cheek? >> no, sorry. >> reporter: what is class? >> class, you got it. >> reporter: the mere mortal got it right. sometimes watson just isn't fast enough. can't sift through all that data. the man who helped build him. >> watson got the answer but slower. and couldn't buzz in fast enough to -- >> reporter: what are you say...

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