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IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI
The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. …
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How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …
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The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute
At this point in the history of the IT business, it is a foregone conclusion that accelerated computing, perhaps in a more diverse manner than many of us anticipated, is the future both in the datacenter and at the edge. …
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Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI
To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …
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Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …
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AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers
If we are talking about infrastructure it might seem obvious to take a systems-level view. …
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NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change
When it comes to making swift pivots to keep pace with the newest architectural innovations, organizations like weather and climate prediction-focused NOAA have major constraints. …
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One Step Closer to Deep Learning on Neuromorphic Hardware
A group of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tool that can cross-train standard convolutional neural networks (CNN) to a spiking neural model that can be used on neuromorphic processors. …
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Stretching GPU Database Performance With Flash Arrays
For the past decade, flash has been used as a kind of storage accelerator, sprinkled into systems here and crammed into bigger chunks there, often with hierarchical tiering software to make it all work as a go-between that sits between slower storage (or sometimes no other tier of storage) and either CPU DRAM or GPU HBM or GDDR memory. …
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The Art Of Tailoring The System For An AI Application
The diverse set of applications and algorithms that make up AI in its many guises has created a need for an equally diverse set of hardware to run it. …