Google recently bared the inner workings of its dedicated machine learning chip, the TPU, marking the latest skirmish in the arms race for AI hardware supremacy. Shorthand for Tensor Processing Unit, the chip has been tailored for use with Google’s
2022-10-28
There’s a lot of doomsaying about AI pushing humans out of jobs and destroying entire industries. Is it as bad as all that? Maybe not! There’s a lot of anxiety out there about automation based on AI making professions obsolete. The fears range from
2022-10-27
Keep reading ... words What does the Facebook AI Lab do? The mission is to push the science of artificial intelligence forward, as well as coming up with useful and cool applications along the way. What's an example of how Facebook uses artificial
2022-10-25
Thoughts Motivation TL;DR version: This post walks through an image classification problem hosted on Kaggle for Yelp. I use Scala, DeepLearning4J and convolutional neural networks. For a self-guided tour, check out the project on Github here . Why… This
2022-10-25
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything
2022-10-19
It’s the year 2021. A quadriplegic patient has just had one million “neural lace” microparticles injected into her brain — becoming the world’s first human with an implanted brain-mind interface and empowering her as the first superhuman cyborg.
2022-10-19
Every day across the nation, people doing work for Google log in to their computers and start watching YouTube. They look for violence in videos. They seek out hateful language in video titles. They decide whether to classify clips as “offensive” or
2022-10-16
(By Paul Cramer) The term artificial intelligence often evokes images of sentient computers from Star Trek or cyborgs from The Terminator. While those are extreme examples of artificial intelligence or AI, the Oxford Dictionary gives a more pragmatic
2022-10-16
It’s common to hear phrases like ‘machine learning’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ and believe that somehow, someone has managed to replicate a human mind inside a computer. This, of course, is untrue—but part of the reason this idea is so
2022-10-14
