artificial intelligence
Two countries orchestrated a near-perfect response to COVID-19, and artificial intelligence (AI) played a key role. Taiwans handling of the pandemic has been outstanding. The country has only 530 confirmed cases, and only 7 deaths since the outbreak. Iceland, too, …
The White House has announced additional funding for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum computing research. The US is adding over $1 billion in funding to setup seven Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes and five Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers over the …
The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) was presented at Hot Chips. Sanders Olson provided Nextbigfuture with the presentation deck. The Cerebras in the most powerful processor for AI with 1.2 trillion transistors. It has * 400,000 AI-optimized cores * the …
Dan Belov from DeepMind gave an overview of AI Research. He says for AI we should abandon our complex reliable processors for smaller, less reliable but much cheaper ones. Machine Learning is about creating new knowledge by using the present …
The Nvidia A100 chip was presented at the Hot Chips conference. Sander Olson provided Nextbigfuture with the presentation. The Nvidia A100 is a third-generation Tensor Core chip. It is faster and more efficient than competing chips like the prior Nvidia …
The scale of Tesla’s near term and future dominance tricks you into thinking it is hype. You think that people who are trying to tell you about it are Elon Musk fans or people who have drunk the Tesla Koolaid. …
Sander Olson has provided a new, original 2020 interview with Artificial General Intelligence expert and entrepreneur Ben Goertzel. Ben is the founder of SingularityNET. Question: Hanson Robotics Sophia robot has garnered considerable attention. Are there any other robots being developed …
The Fugaku supercomputer is the new fastest supercomputer and is almost 3 times faster than the Summit Supercomputer. Fugaku High Performance Linpack (HPL) was 415.5 petaflops. Fugaku uses Fujitsus 48-core A64FX SoC. It is the first world fastest computer to …
Purdue University engineers have a built a website (cam2project.net ) that gathers live video and images from about 30,000 network cameras in more than 100 countries and they are using the system to monitor and analyze COVID-19 social distancing. The …
OpenAI’s GPT-3 is the most powerful AI language model ever. GPT-2 was released in 2019. GPT-3 is a big leap forward. The model has 175 billion parameters (the values that a neural network tries to optimize during training), compared with …